Agnotocastor galushai

Taxobox
name = "Agnotocastor galushai"
fossil_range = Late Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Castoridae
genus = †"Agnotocastor"
species = †"A. galushai"
species_authority = Emry, 1972
binomial = †"Agnotocastor galushai"

"Agnotocastor galushai" is an extinct species of beaver. Little is known about this early relative of beavers, but it appears to be the oldest animal which can be referred to the family Castoridae, although the fossil does not reveal any further information on the ancestry of Castoridae (Emry, 1972).

References

Emry, R. J. 1972. A new species of "Agnotocastor" (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the early Oligocene of Wyoming. American Museum Novitates, no. 2485. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/2693]