Arenagale
Appearance
Arenagale Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Afrosoricida |
Suborder: | Tenrecomorpha |
Family: | Tenrecidae |
Genus: | †Arenagale |
Species: | †A. calcareus
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Binomial name | |
†Arenagale calcareus Pickford, 2015
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Arenagale is an extinct genus of tenrecid that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Arenagale calcareus is known from the Eocliff Limestone of Namibia.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Pickford, Martin (2015). "Late Eocene Potamogalidae and Tenrecidae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 114–152.