Trogontherium Temporal range:
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Skull of Trogontherium cuvieri | |
Scientific 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
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Other species | |
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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.