Phoberomys
Appearance
Phoberomys | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | †Neoepiblemidae |
Genus: | †Phoberomys Kraglievich, 1926 |
Species | |
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Phoberomys is an extinct genus of rodents. Fossil specimens from the Late Miocene period have been discovered in the Ituzaingó Formation of Argentina, the Solimões Formation of Brazil, the Urumaco Formation at Urumaco in Venezuela, and the Pliocene of Peru.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]Species in the genus described are:[1][3]
- Phoberomys burmeisteri (=P. insolita, P. lozanoi, P. minima, P. praecursor)
- Phoberomys pattersoni
Another species, P. bordasii, has been considered as possibly belonging to Neoepiblema.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Phoberomys at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.; Aguilera, Orangel A.; Carlini, Alfredo A. (2010). Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology: The Fossil Record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press. p. 218. ISBN 9780253002006.
- ^ a b Rasia, Luciano L.; Candela, Adriana M. (2018-05-19). "Reappraisal of the giant caviomorph rodent Phoberomys burmeisteri (Ameghino, 1886) from the late Miocene of northeastern Argentina, and the phylogeny and diversity of Neoepiblemidae". Historical Biology. 30 (4): 486–495. Bibcode:2018HBio...30..486R. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1294168. hdl:11336/56417. ISSN 0891-2963.
Categories:
- Neoepiblemidae
- Prehistoric pacaranas
- Miocene rodents
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Huayquerian
- Neogene Argentina
- Neogene Brazil
- Paraná Basin
- Neogene Venezuela
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossils of Brazil
- Fossils of Venezuela
- Fossil taxa described in 1926
- Prehistoric rodent genera
- Ituzaingó Formation
- Prehistoric rodent stubs