Migmacastor

Migmacastor; Temporal range: late Oligocene or early Miocene
	Life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Castoridae
Genus:	†Migmacastor; Korth & Rybczynski, 2003
Species:	†M. procumbodens
Binomial name
	†Migmacastor procumbodens; Korth & Rybczynski, 2003

Migmacastor is an extinct member of the beaver family, Castoridae, known from a single species, Migmacastor procumbodens. Only a single specimen has been reported, a skull from the late Oligocene or early Miocene of Nebraska. Features of the incisor teeth of Migmacastor indicate they were used to dig. Other extinct beavers, including the better-known Palaeocastor, were also fossorial (digging), but Migmacastor may have become a burrower independently.^[1]

References

^ Korth, William W.; Rybczynski, Natalia (2003), "A new, unusual castorid (Rodentia) from the earliest Miocene of Nebraska", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (3): 667–675, doi:10.1671/2371

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[1] Korth, William W.; Rybczynski, Natalia (2003), "A new, unusual castorid (Rodentia) from the earliest Miocene of Nebraska", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (3): 667–675, doi:10.1671/2371

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