Castoridae is a family of rodents that contains the two living species of beavers and their fossil relatives. A formerly diverse group, only a single genus is extant today, Castor. Two other genera of "giant beavers", Castoroides and Trogontherium, became extinct in the Late Pleistocene.
Castoridae is a family of rodents that contains the two living species of beavers and their fossil relatives. A formerly diverse group, only a single genus...
the gophers. Modern beavers are the only extant members of the family Castoridae. They originated in North America in the late Eocene and colonized Eurasia...
Agnotocastor is an extinct member of the beaver family Castoridae. Unlike its modern relative, this species took the place of muskrats in the rivers of...
infraorbital canal. Among extant rodents, only the families Sciuridae, Castoridae, Heteromyidae, and Geomyidae are truly sciuromorphous. Some authorities...
(2013-05-01). "Skeletal Morphology of Palaeocastor peninsulatus (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the Fort Logan Formation of Montana (early Arikareean): Ontogenetic...
"Comparison of Miocene to early Pleistocene-aged Castor californicus (Rodentia: Castoridae) to extant beavers and implications for the evolution of Castor in North...
This is an incomplete list of mammals of Saskatchewan, those mammals native to or occasionally found in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada. Having...
This list of mammals of South Dakota includes species native to the U.S. state of South Dakota. Three species that are extirpated from the state are the...
There are 84 mammal species (with two uncertain) recorded in Sweden according to the IUCN Red List. Two are endangered, one is vulnerable as well now extinct...
mammals like the river otter (Lontra canadensis) and beavers (family Castoridae), although these are technically amphibious or semiaquatic. There are...
This is a list of mammals of Europe. It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Denmark, listing only species found outside captivity and fenced enclosures, or with certain records younger...
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda...
Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except...
July 31, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2018. Helgen, K.M. (2005). "Family Castoridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A...
fiber in Bulgaria: fossil, subfossil and historical records (Rodentia: Castoridae). Lynx 50: 37–49. Poulter, A. 2007: Nicopolis ad Istrum: A late Roman...
This list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 11,700 years on the North American...
Anchitheriomys is an extinct member of the beaver family, Castoridae. It inhabited North America and Eurasia during the middle Miocene. The name of the...
"Comments on the Systematics and Classification of the Beavers (Rodentia, Castoridae)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 8 (4): 279–296. doi:10.1023/A:1014468732231...
North America. 2 volumes. Ronald Press. Helgen, Kristofer M. 2005. Family Castoridae. Pp. 842–843 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic...
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