Mayomys

Mayomys
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Octodontoidea
Genus: †
Species:
†M. confluens
Binomial name
†Mayomys confluens
Boivin et. al., 2018

Mayomys is an extinct genus of octodontoid that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.

Distribution

Mayomys confluens is known from the Pozo Formation of Peru.[1]

References

  1. ^ Boivin, Myriam; Marivaux, Laurent; Pujos, François; Salas-Gismondi, Rodolfo; Tejada-Lara, Julia V.; Varas-Malca, Rafael M.; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier (2 August 2018). "Early Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Shapaja, Peruvian Amazonia". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 311 (1–6): 87–156. doi:10.1127/pala/2018/0075. hdl:11336/87451. ISSN 0375-0442. Retrieved 24 June 2025 – via Schweizerbart Science Publishers.


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