Phenacophiomys

Phenacophiomys
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: †Phiomyidae
Genus: †
Species:
†P. occidentalis
Binomial name
†Phenacophiomys occidentalis
Marivaux et. al., 2017

Phenacophiomys is an extinct genus of phiomyid that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.

Distribution

Phenacophiomys occidentalis is known from the Samlat Formation of Western Sahara.[1]

References

  1. ^ Marivaux, Laurent; Adnet, Sylvain; Benammi, Mohamed; Tabuce, Rodolphe; Yans, Johan; Benammi, Mouloud (29 September 2017). "Earliest Oligocene hystricognathous rodents from the Atlantic margin of northwestern Saharan Africa (Dakhla, Morocco): systematic, paleobiogeographical, and paleoenvironmental implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (5): e1357567. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1357567. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 26 June 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.


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