Dzavui (mammal)

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Dzavui
Temporal range: 41.3–28.1  Ma [1] Bartonian to the top of the Rupelian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Erinaceidae
Subfamily: Galericinae
Genus: Dzavui
Jiménez-Hidalgoa et al., 2022
Type species
Dzavui landeri

Dzavui is a genus of galericine erinaceid that lived in Mexico during the Oligocene epoch. [2]

References

  1. Dzavui in the Paleobiology Database
  2. Jiménez-Hidalgo, Eduardo; Guerrero-Arenas, Rosalía; Crespo, Vicente D. (3 June 2023). "First galericine erinaceid (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla) from the early Oligocene of tropical North America" . Historical Biology . 35 (6): 935–940. Bibcode:2023HBio...35..935J. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2070018. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 19 September 2024 via Taylor and Francis Online.