Geofossor corvinusae Mein and Pickford 2003 (mole rat)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae

Full reference: P. Mein and M. Pickford. 2003. Rodentia (other than Pedetidae) from the Orange River deposits, Namibia. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19:147-160

Belongs to Geofossor according to P. Mein and M. Pickford 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PQAD 1638, a partial skull. Its type locality is Arrisdrift, which is in a Miocene channel sandstone in Namibia.

Ecology: fossorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Arrisdrift

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