Trigontherium minus Newton 1890 (beaver)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

Full reference: R. T. Newton. 1890. On some new mammals from the Red and Norwich Crags. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 46:444-453

Belongs to Trigontherium according to H. F. Osborn 1922

See also Newton 1890

Sister taxon: Trigontherium cuvieri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Woodbridge, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in the Red Crag Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: amphibious browser

Distribution: found only at Woodbridge

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