Argorheomys

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Argorheomys
Temporal range: Bartonian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Pipestoneomyidae
Genus: Argorheomys
Species:
A. septendrionalis
Binomial name
Argorheomys septendrionalis
Korth & Emry, 2013

Argorheomys is an extinct genus of pipestoneomyid rodent that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

Argorheomys septendrionalis is known from Duchesnean deposits in the Cypress Hills Formation of Saskatchewan, Canada. [1]

References

  1. Korth, William W.; Emry, Robert J. (March 2013). "Pipestoneomyidae, a new family of fossil rodents (Mammalia) from the Duchesnean (late middle Eocene, Bartonian) to Orellan (early Oligocene, Priabonian) of North America" . Journal of Paleontology . 87 (2): 289–296. doi:10.1666/12-054R.1. ISSN   0022-3360 . Retrieved 19 April 2025 via Cambridge Core.