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Argorheomys

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Argorheomys
Temporal range: Bartonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Pipestoneomyidae
Genus: Argorheomys
Species:
A. septendrionalis
Binomial name
Argorheomys septendrionalis
Korth & Emry, 2013

Argorheomys is an extinct genus of pipestoneomyid rodent that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

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Argorheomys septendrionalis is known from Duchesnean deposits in the Cypress Hills Formation of Saskatchewan, Canada.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Korth, William W.; Emry, Robert J. (March 2013). "Pipestoneomyidae, a new family of fossil rodents (Mammalia) from the Duchesnean (late middle Eocene, Bartonian) to Orellan (early Oligocene, Priabonian) of North America". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (2): 289–296. doi:10.1666/12-054R.1. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 19 April 2025 – via Cambridge Core.