Migmacastor

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Migmacastor is an extinct member of the beaver family, Castoridae, known from a single species, Migmacastor procumbodens. Only a single specimen has been reported, a skull from the late Oligocene or early Miocene of Nebraska. Features of the incisor teeth of Migmacastor indicate they were used to dig. Other extinct beavers, including the better-known Palaeocastor, were also fossorial (digging), but Migmacastor may have become a burrower independently.[1]



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  1. Korth, William W.; Rybczynski, Natalia (2003), "A new, unusual castorid (Rodentia) from the earliest Miocene of Nebraska", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (3): 667–675, doi:10.1671/2371

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