Mesoprocta
| Mesoprocta Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dasyproctidae |
| Genus: | †Mesoprocta Croft et al., 2011 |
| Species: | †M. hypsodus
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| †Mesoprocta hypsodus Croft et al., 2011
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Mesoprocta is an extinct genus of dasyproctid rodent that inhabited Bolivia during the Middle Miocene and that is known from a single species, M. hypsodus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Croft, Darin A.; Chick, Jennifer M. H.; Anaya, Federico (5 July 2011). "New Middle Miocene Caviomorph Rodents from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 18 (4): 245–268. doi:10.1007/s10914-011-9164-z. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 15 December 2024 – via Springer Nature Link.
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