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Prozenkerella

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Prozenkerella
Temporal range: Early Oligocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Anomaluridae
Genus: Prozenkerella
Species:
P. saharaensis
Binomial name
Prozenkerella saharaensis
Coster et. al., 2015

Prozenkerella is an extinct genus of anomalurid that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.

Distribution

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Prozenkerella saharaensis is known from Libya.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Coster, Pauline M. C.; Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Salem, Mustafa J.; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques (6 October 2015). "New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents". Frontiers in Earth Science. 3: 56. Bibcode:2015FrEaS...3...56C. doi:10.3389/feart.2015.00056. ISSN 2296-6463.