†Capatanka cankpeopi Macdonald 1963 (beaver)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Alternative combination: Palaeocastor cankpeopi
Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238
Belongs to Capatanka according to J. R. Macdonald 1963
See also Martin 1987 and Xu 1996
Sister taxon: Capatanka minor
Type specimen: SDSM 53421, a skull. Its type locality is Sharps (SDSM V-5354), which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Sharps Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: amphibious browser
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Capatanka cankpeopi in the database
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