Neoparadoxia

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Neoparadoxia
Temporal range: Miocene
Neoparadoxia cecilialina LACM.jpg
The holotype of Neoparadoxia cecilialina on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Desmostylia
Family: Paleoparadoxiidae
Genus: Neoparadoxia
Barnes, 2013
Type species
Neoparadoxia cecilialina
Barnes, 2013
Species
  • N. cecilialinaBarnes, 2013
  • N. repenningi(Domning and Barnes, 2007)

Neoparadoxia is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous aquatic desmostylian mammals from the Miocene Ladera and Monterey Formations of North America. [1]

References

  1. Barnes, L.. (2013, September 11) .A new genus and species of late Miocene Paleoparadoxiid (Mammalia, Desmostylia) from California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, (521), 51–114