Namagale

Namagale
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Afrosoricida
Suborder: Tenrecomorpha
Family: Potamogalidae
Genus:
Species:
N. grandis
Binomial name
Namagale grandis
Pickford, 2015

Namagale is an extinct genus of potamogalid that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

Namagale grandis is known from the Eocliff Limestone of Namibia.[1]

References

  1. ^ Pickford, Martin (2015). "Late Eocene Potamogalidae and Tenrecidae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 114–152.