Tenerife giant rat

Tenerife giant rat; Temporal range: Late Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Skull housed in Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	†Canariomys
Species:	†C. bravoi
Binomial name
	†Canariomys bravoi; Crusafont Pairó & Petter, 1964

The Tenerife giant rat (Canariomys bravoi) is an extinct species of rodent endemic to the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, Spain. Many remains have been found during archeological digs. Most remains are from the Pleistocene. Radiocarbon dating has placed some of the finds in the late Pleistocene.^[1]

^ Michaux, J.; López-Martínez, N.; Hernández-Pachero, J.J. (1996). "A ¹⁴C dating of Canariomys bravoi (Mammalia, Rodentia), the extinct giant rat from Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), and the recent history of the endemic mammals in the archipelago". Vie et Milieu. 46: 261–266..

[1] Michaux, J.; López-Martínez, N.; Hernández-Pachero, J.J. (1996). "A ¹⁴C dating of Canariomys bravoi (Mammalia, Rodentia), the extinct giant rat from Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), and the recent history of the endemic mammals in the archipelago". Vie et Milieu. 46: 261–266..

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