<i>Mesoprocta hypsodus</i> reconstruction (IMAGE)

American Museum of Natural History

<i>Mesoprocta hypsodus</i> reconstruction

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This is a reconstruction of Mesoprocta hypsodus, an extinct, 13-million-year-old Bolivian relative of the new dasyproctid rodent Andemys termasi from Chile.

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V. Simeonovski & D.A. Croft

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