Australoprocta is an extinct genus of dasyproctid rodent that lived during the Early Miocene of what is now Argentina. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Chichinales and Sarmiento Formations of Argentina.[1][2]
| Australoprocta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dasyproctidae |
| Genus: | †Australoprocta Kramarz, 1988 |
| Species: | †A. fleaglei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Australoprocta fleaglei Kramarz 1998
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References
edit- ^ Kramarz, Alejandro G. (1998). "Un nuevo Dasyproctidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) del Mioceno inferior De Patagonia". Ameghiniana. 35 (2): 181–192. ISSN 1851-8044.
- ^ Madden, Richard H.; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Vucetich, Maria Guiomar; Kay, Richard F. (2010-06-17). "Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art.". The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change Through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87241-6.