Hondalagus
Appearance
Hondalagus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Polydolopimorphia |
Family: | †Argyrolagidae |
Genus: | †Hondalagus Marshall & Villarroel, 1988 |
Type species | |
†Hondalagus altiplanensis Marshall & Villarroel, 1988
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Hondalagus is an extinct genus of mammals that lived during the Middle Miocene epoch (Laventan) in South America. Their fossils were found in the Honda Group at Quebrada Honda, in southern Bolivia.[1] Hondalagus represents the smallest and most specialized member of the extinct family Argyrolagidae.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Hondalagus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Villarroel C.A. y Marshall, L.G. (1988) A New Argyrolagoid (Mammalia: Marsupialia) from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 62, No. 3:463–467