Biology:Hondalagus
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Short description: Extinct genus of marsupials
| Hondalagus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | |
| Class: | Mammalia
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| Order: | Polydolopimorpha
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| Suborder: | †Bonapartheriformes
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| Superfamily: | †Argyrolagoidea
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| Family: | †Argyrolagidae
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| Genus: | †Hondalagus Marshall & Villarroel 1988
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| Type species | |
| †Hondalagus altiplanensis Marshall & Villarroel 1988
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Hondalagus is an extinct genus of marsupial 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
- ↑ 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
Wikidata ☰ Q3805948 entry
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