Misplaced Pages

Lazibemys

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

Lazibemys
Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: †Zegdoumyidae
Genus: †Lazibemys
Species: †L. zegdouensis
Binomial name
†Lazibemys zegdouensis
Marivaux et. al., 2011

Lazibemys is an extinct genus of zegdoumyid rodent that inhabited Algeria during the Eocene epoch. It contains a single species, L. zegdouensis.

References

  1. Marivaux, Laurent; Adaci, Mohammed; Bensalah, Mustapha; Rodrigues, Helder Gomes; Hautier, Lionel; Mahboubi, M’hammed; Mebrouk, Fateh; Tabuce, Rodolphe; Vianey-Liaud, Monique (5 December 2011). "Zegdoumyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia), stem anomaluroid rodents from the Early to Middle Eocene of Algeria (Gour Lazib, Western Sahara): new dental evidence". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (4): 563–588. Bibcode:2011JSPal...9..563M. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.562555. ISSN 1477-2019.


Stub icon

This article about a prehistoric rodent is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: