Neoparadoxia

Neoparadoxia
Temporal range:
The holotype of Neoparadoxia cecilialina on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Desmostylia
Family: Paleoparadoxiidae
Genus:
Barnes, 2013
Type species
Neoparadoxia cecilialina
Barnes, 2013
Species
  • N. cecilialina Barnes, 2013
  • N. repenningi (Domning and Barnes, 2007)

Neoparadoxia is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous aquatic desmostylian mammals from the Miocene Ladera and Monterey Formations of North America.[1]

References

  1. ^ Barnes, L.. (2013, September 11) .A new genus and species of late Miocene Paleoparadoxiid (Mammalia, Desmostylia) from California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, (521), 51–114