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Namagale

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Namagale
Temporal range: Bartonian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Afrosoricida
Suborder: Tenrecomorpha
Family: Potamogalidae
Genus: Namagale
Species:
N. grandis
Binomial name
Namagale grandis
Pickford, 2015

Namagale is an extinct genus of potamogalid that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

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Namagale grandis is known from the Eocliff Limestone of Namibia.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Pickford, Martin (2015). "Late Eocene Potamogalidae and Tenrecidae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 114–152.