Hondalagus
| Hondalagus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Chordata
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| Class: | Mammalia
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| Order: | Polydolopimorpha
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| Suborder: | †
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| Superfamily: | †
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| Family: | †
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| Genus: | †Hondalagus Marshall & Villarroel 1988
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| Type species | |
| Hondalagus altiplanensis Marshall & Villarroel 1988
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Hondalagus is an extinct genus of marsupial mammals that lived during the Middle Miocene epoch (Laventan) in South America. Their fossils were found in the at Quebrada Honda, in southern Bolivia.[1] Hondalagus represents the smallest and most specialized member of the extinct family .[2]
References[]
- ^ Hondalagus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Villarroel C.A. y Marshall, L.G. (1988) A New Argyrolagoid (Mammalia: Marsupialia) from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 62, No. 3:463–467
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Categories:
- Miocene marsupials
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Laventan
- Neogene Bolivia
- Fossils of Bolivia
- Fossil taxa described in 1988