Mayomys
| Mayomys Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Superfamily: | Octodontoidea |
| Genus: | † |
| Species: | †M. confluens
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mayomys confluens Boivin et. al., 2018
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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
- ^ 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. ISSN 0375-0442. Retrieved 24 June 2025 – via Schweizerbart Science Publishers.