Hondalagus
| Hondalagus Temporal range: Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Metatheria |
| Superorder: | Ameridelphia |
| Order: | Paucituberculata |
| Suborder: | †Simpsonitheria |
| Superfamily: | †Argyrolagoidea |
| Family: | †Argyrolagidae |
| Genus: | †Hondalagus (Marshall & Villarroel, 1988) |
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Hondalagus is an extinct genus of marsupial mammals that lived during the Miocene epoch in South America. Their fossils was found in Quebrada Honda, in southern Bolivia. Hondalagus represents the smallest and most specialized member of the extinct family Argyrolagidae.[1]
References
- ↑
- Villarroel C.A. y Marshall, L.G. (1988) A New Argyrolagoid (Mammalia: Marsupialia) from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 62, No. 3:463–467
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