Castor californicus
| Castor californicus Temporal range: late Miocene to early Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Castoridae |
| Genus: | Castor |
| Species: | †C. californicus
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| †Castor californicus Kellogg, 1911[1]
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Castor californicus is an extinct species of beaver that lived in western North America from the end of the Miocene to the early Pleistocene.[2] The species was similar to but larger than the extant North American beaver, C. canadensis.[4]
References
- ^ Kellogg, Louise (1911). "A Fossil Beaver from the Kettleman Hills, California". Bulletin of the Department of Geology. 6 (17). University of California Publications: 401–402.
- ^ a b "The Paleobiology Database - Castor californicus". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- ^ Hay, Oliver P. (1927). The Pleistocene of the Western Region of North America and its Vertebrated Animals. Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication ;no. 322B. Carnegie Institution of Washington. pp. 266–267.
- ^ Kurtén, B. & E. Anderson (1980). Pleistocene Mammals of North America. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 236–237. ISBN 0-231-03733-3.
Further reading
- Repenning, Charles A.; Weasma, Ted R.; Scott, George R. (1995). "Castor californicus Kellogg, 1911". The Early Pleistocene (Latest Blancan-Earliest Irvingtonian) Froman Ferry Fauna and History of the Glenns Ferry Formation, Southwestern Idaho. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. Vol. 2105. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 26–27. doi:10.3133/b2105.
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