Agnotocastor
| Agnotocastor Temporal range: Late Eocene to Late Oligocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Castorimorpha |
| Family: | Castoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Agnotocastorinae |
| Tribe: | †Agnotocastorini |
| Genus: | †Agnotocastor Stirton, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| †Agnotocastor praetereadens | |
| Species | |
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Agnotocastor is an extinct member of the beaver family Castoridae. Unlike its modern relative, this species took the place of muskrats in the rivers of North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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