Argorheomys
Appearance
Argorheomys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | †Pipestoneomyidae |
Genus: | †Argorheomys |
Species: | †A. septendrionalis
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Binomial name | |
†Argorheomys septendrionalis Korth & Emry, 2013
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Argorheomys is an extinct genus of pipestoneomyid rodent that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Argorheomys septendrionalis is known from Duchesnean deposits in the Cypress Hills Formation of Saskatchewan, Canada.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.