Trogontherium

Trogontherium
Temporal range:
Skull of Trogontherium cuvieri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Castoridae
Tribe: Trogontheriini
Genus: Trogontherium
von Waldheim, 1809
Type species
Trogontherium cuvieri
von Waldheim, 1809
Other species
  • T. minus Newton, 1890

Trogontherium is an extinct genus of Eurasian giant beavers that lived from the Late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene. Fossils of Trogontherium have been found across northern Eurasia, from Western Europe to China and Siberia.


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