Incamys

Incamys
Temporal range: Late Oligocene (Deseadan)
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Chinchillidae
Genus: Incamys
Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970
Type species
Incamys bolivianus
Hoffstetter & Lavocat 1970
Species
  • I. bolivianus Hoffstetter & Lavocat 1970
  • I. menniorum Vucetich et al. 2015
Synonyms
  • I. pretiosus Lavocat 1976

Incamys is an extinct genus of chinchillid rodent that lived during the Late Oligocene (Deseadan) in what is now South America. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Salla Formation of Bolivia and the Agua de la Piedra and Sarmiento Formations of Argentina.

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