''Australoprocta'' is an extinct
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
dasyproctid rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia ( ), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and Mandible, lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal specie ...
that lived during the Early Miocene of what is now
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
. Fossils of this genus have been found in the
Chichinales and
Sarmiento Formations of Argentina.
References
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Dasyproctidae
Hystricognath rodents
Monotypic prehistoric rodent genera
Miocene rodents
Miocene first appearances
Miocene genus extinctions
Miocene mammals of South America
Colhuehuapian
Neogene Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Fossil taxa described in 1998
Chichinales Formation
Golfo San Jorge Basin
Sarmiento Formation