Agnotocastor galushai

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Agnotocastor galushai
Fossil range: Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Castoridae
Genus: Agnotocastor
Species: A. galushai
Emry, 1972
Binomial name
Agnotocastor galushai

Agnotocastor galushai is an extinct species of beaver. Little is known about this early relative of beavers, but it appears to be the oldest animal which can be referred to the family Castoridae, although the fossil does not reveal any further information on the ancestry of Castoridae (Emry, 1972).

[edit] References

Emry, R. J. 1972. A new species of Agnotocastor (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the early Oligocene of Wyoming. American Museum Novitates, no. 2485. [1]

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