Marisela gregoriana
| Marisela gregoriana Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Hystricomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Hystricognathi |
| Parvorder: | Caviomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Octodontoidea |
| Genus: | † |
| Species: | †M. gregoriana
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| Binomial name | |
| †Marisela gregoriana Vucetich et. al., 2010
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Marisela is an extinct genus of rodent that lived during the Piacenzian.
Distribution
Fossils of M. gregoriana hail from the San Gregorio Formation of Venezuela.[1]
References
- ^ Vucetich, M. Guiomar; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Aguilera, Orangel; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (17 June 2010). "The Tropics as Reservoir of Otherwise Extinct Mammals: The Case of Rodents from a New Pliocene Faunal Assemblage from Northern Venezuela". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17 (4): 265–273. doi:10.1007/s10914-010-9142-x. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 15 February 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.