Neoparadoxia
Neoparadoxia Temporal range: | |
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Neoparadoxia cecilialina from Orange County, CA on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles county | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Desmostylia |
Family: | †Paleoparadoxiidae |
Genus: | †Neoparadoxia Barnes, 2013 |
Type species | |
†Paleoparadoxia repenningi | |
Species | |
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Neoparadoxia is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous aquatic desmostylian mammals from the Miocene Ladera and Monterey Formations of North America.[1]
References
- ^ Barnes, L.. (2013, September 11) .A new genus and species of late Miocene Paleoparadoxiid (Mammalia, Desmostylia) from California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, (521), 51–114