Marisela gregoriana

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Marisela gregoriana
Temporal range: Late Pliocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Hystricomorpha
Infraorder: Hystricognathi
Parvorder: Caviomorpha
Superfamily: Octodontoidea
Genus: Marisela
Species:
M. gregoriana
Binomial name
Marisela gregoriana
Vucetich et. al., 2010

Marisela is an extinct genus of rodent that lived during the Piacenzian.

Distribution

Fossils of M. gregoriana hail from the San Gregorio Formation of Venezuela. [1]

References

  1. Vucetich, M. Guiomar; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Aguilera, Orangel; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (17 June 2010). "The Tropics as Reservoir of Otherwise Extinct Mammals: The Case of Rodents from a New Pliocene Faunal Assemblage from Northern Venezuela" . Journal of Mammalian Evolution . 17 (4): 265–273. doi:10.1007/s10914-010-9142-x. ISSN   1064-7554 . Retrieved 15 February 2025 via Springer Nature Link.