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Marisela gregoriana

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Marisela gregoriana
Temporal range: Late Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Hystricomorpha
Infraorder: Hystricognathi
Parvorder: Caviomorpha
Superfamily: Octodontoidea
Genus: Marisela
Species:
M. gregoriana
Binomial name
Marisela gregoriana
Vucetich et. al., 2010

Marisela is an extinct genus of rodent that lived during the Piacenzian.

Distribution

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Fossils of M. gregoriana hail from the San Gregorio Formation of Venezuela.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Vucetich, M. Guiomar; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Aguilera, Orangel; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (17 June 2010). "The Tropics as Reservoir of Otherwise Extinct Mammals: The Case of Rodents from a New Pliocene Faunal Assemblage from Northern Venezuela". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17 (4): 265–273. doi:10.1007/s10914-010-9142-x. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 15 February 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.