Eoviscaccia
Extinct genus of rodents / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eoviscaccia is an extinct genus of chinchillid rodent that lived during the Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican) to the Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian) in what is now South America. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Cerro Bandera,[1] Chichinales,[2] Fray Bentos,[3] and Sarmiento Formations[4][5][6] of Argentina, the Salla Formation of Bolivia,[6] and the Abanico Formation of Chile.[7]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Chinchillidae |
Genus: | †Eoviscaccia Vucetich, 1989 |
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†Eoviscaccia boliviana Vucetich, 1989 | |
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