Eumegamys

Eumegamys is an extinct genus of dinomyid rodent from the late Miocene and Pliocene of Brazil (Solimões Formation), Venezuela (Urumaco Formation, Urumaco) and Argentina (Ituzaingó Formation) in South America.[1] Its skull was 50 cm (1.64 ft) long.[2]

Eumegamys
Fossil femur of Eumegamys sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dinomyidae
Genus: †Eumegamys
Kraglievich, 1926
Synonyms
  • Carlesia pendolai Kraglievich 1926

References
  1. Eumegamys at Fossilworks.org
  2. 新版　絶滅哺乳類図鑑. Yukimitsu Tomida. 30 January 2011.

Further reading
  • McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8


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