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Morphology of an Early Oligocene beaver <i>Propalaeocastor irtyshensis</i> and the status of the genus <i>Propalaeocastor</i>

2017-04-13

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The Early to Late Oligocene Propalaeocastor is the earliest known beaver genus from Eurasia. Although many species of this genus have been described, these species are defined based on very fragmentary specimens. Propalaeocastor irtyshensis from the Early Oligocene Irtysh River Formation in northwestern Xinjiang, China is one of the earliest-known members of Propalaeocastor . This species is defined on a single...

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Literature Corpus work: f1556190-9346-5132-b08f-268115b76399
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2926v1

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