Castor californicus

Castor californicus
Temporal range: late Miocene to early Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Castoridae
Genus:Castor
Species: †C. californicus
Binomial name
Castor californicus
Kellogg, 1911[1]
Sites of C. californicus finds
Synonyms

†Castor accessor Hay, 1927[2][3]

Castor californicus is an extinct species of beaver that lived in western North America from the end of the Miocene to the early Pleistocene.[2] The species was similar to but larger than the extant North American beaver, C. canadensis.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kellogg, Louise (1911). "A Fossil Beaver from the Kettleman Hills, California". Bulletin of the Department of Geology. University of California Publications. 6 (17): 401–402.
  2. 1 2 "The Paleobiology Database - Castor californicus". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
  3. ↑ Hay, Oliver P. (1927). The Pleistocene of the Western Region of North America and its Vertebrated Animals. Carnegie Institution of Washington. pp. 266–267.
  4. ↑ Kurtén, B. & E. Anderson (1980). Pleistocene Mammals of North America. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 236–237. ISBN 0-231-03733-3.

Further reading

  • Repenning, Charles A.; Weasma, Ted R.; Scott, George R. (1995). "Castor californicus Kellogg, 1911". The Early Pleistocene (Latest Blancan-Earliest Irvingtonian) Froman Ferry Fauna and History of the Glenns Ferry Formation, Southwestern Idaho. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. 2105. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 26–27.


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