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Megapedetes pentadactylus MacInnes, 1957
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Megapedetes pentadactylus MacInnes, 1957
- Type status: Part of Paratype
- Specific epithet: pentadactylus
- Scientific name authorship: MacInnes, 1957
- Recorded by: Louis S. Leakey; b.07 August 1903; d.01 October 1972; Leakey
- Phylum: Chordata
- Order: Rodentia
- Locality: Wanyama, Rusinga Island
- Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identified by: D. G MacInnes; MacInnes
- Higher geography: Africa; Kenya; Wanyama, Rusinga Island; Africa; Kenya
- Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Pedetidae
- Group: Rusinga Group
- Genus: Megapedetes
- Family: Pedetidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Neogene
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Miocene
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Earliest age or Lowestst age: Burdigalian
- Country: Kenya
- Continent: Africa
- Class: Mammalia
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