Trogontherium
Appearance
Trogontherium | |
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Skull of Trogontherium cuvieri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Castoridae |
Tribe: | †Trogontheriini |
Genus: | †Trogontherium von Waldheim, 1809 |
Type species | |
Trogontherium cuvieri von Waldheim, 1809
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Species | |
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Trogontherium is an extinct genus of giant beavers.[1] Fossils of Trogontherium have been found in Middle Pleistocene formations of England, mainland Europe, Yunnan, China, and Siberia, Russia.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-27. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
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