Australoprocta
Temporal range: Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dasyproctidae
Genus: †Australoprocta
Kramarz, 1988
Species:
†A. fleaglei
Binomial name
†Australoprocta fleaglei
Kramarz 1998

Australoprocta is an extinct genus of dasyproctid rodent that lived during the Early Miocene of what is now Argentina. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Chichinales and Sarmiento Formations of Argentina.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Kramarz, Alejandro G. (1998). "Un nuevo Dasyproctidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) del Mioceno inferior De Patagonia". 35 (2): 181–192. ISSN 1851-8044. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ↑ Madden, Richard H.; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Vucetich, Maria Guiomar; Kay, Richard F. (2010-06-17). "Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art.". The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change Through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87241-6.
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