Mesoprocta
Exinct genus of mammals
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Mesoprocta is an extinct genus of dasyproctid rodent that inhabited Bolivia during the Middle Miocene and that is known from a single species, M. hypsodus.[1]
| Mesoprocta Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dasyproctidae |
| Genus: | †Mesoprocta Croft et al., 2011 |
| Species: | †M. hypsodus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Mesoprocta hypsodus Croft et al., 2011 | |
