| Giant Beavers Fossil range: Late Pliocene - Late Pleistocene |
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| †Castoroides ohioensis |
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†Castoroides leiseyorum |
Castoroides is an extinct genus of giant beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. The Pliocene epoch (spelled Pleiocene in some older texts is the period in the Geologic timescale that extends The Pleistocene ('plaɪstəsin is the epoch from 18 million to 10000 years BP covering the world's recent period The Giant Beaver ( Castoroides ohioensis) was a huge species of rodent with a length up to 2 Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands Rodentia is an order of Mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must The family Castoridae contains the two living species of Beaver and their Fossil relatives In biology a type is that which fixes a name to a Taxon. Depending on the nomenclature code which is applied to the organism in question a type may be a specimen The Giant Beaver ( Castoroides ohioensis) was a huge species of rodent with a length up to 2 In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. The Giant Beaver ( Castoroides ohioensis) was a huge species of rodent with a length up to 2 Beavers are two primarily nocturnal semi-aquatic species of Rodent, one native to North America and one to Europe The Pleistocene ('plaɪstəsin is the epoch from 18 million to 10000 years BP covering the world's recent period There are two known species:
- Castoroides leiseyorum (in Florida)
- Castoroides ohioensis (also Castoroides nebrascensis; United States and Canada)
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