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Pocket gophers, commonly referred to simply as gophers, are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae. [2] The roughly 41 species [ 3 ] are all endemic to North and Central America. [ 4 ] They are commonly known for their extensive tunneling activities and their ability to destroy farms and gardens.
South America's considerable cervid diversity belies their relatively recent arrival. The presence of camelids in South America but not North America today is ironic, given that they have a 45-million-year-long history in the latter continent (where they originated), and only a 3-million-year history in the former. Family: Tayassuidae (peccaries)
The gopher tortoise is grouped with land tortoises that originated 60 million years ago, in North America. A genetic study has shown that their closest relatives are in the Asian genus Manouria. [1] The gopher tortoises live in the southern United States from California's Mojave Desert across to Florida, and in parts of northern Mexico.
Belongs to the Austrokritosauria, a clade of hadrosaurids endemic to South America [18] Bonatitan: 2004 Allen Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian to Maastrichtian) Argentina: Analysis of its inner ear suggests a decreased range of head movements compared to other sauropods [19] Bonitasaura: 2004 Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Late Cretaceous ...
Gopher tortoises can live more than 40 years. [23] One current specimen, Gus (age 101—the oldest known living gopher tortoise—as of 2024 [ 24 ] [ 25 ] ), has been living continuously in captivity at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax for 75 years as of 2018 [update] [ 26 ] and is believed to have hatched between 1920 and 1925.
The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), also known as the striped gopher, leopard ground squirrel, and squinny (formerly known as the leopard-spermophile in the age of Audubon), is a species of hibernating ground squirrel that is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America.
Therefore, the most likely explanation is that they somehow crossed the Atlantic Ocean, which was less wide than today, landed in South America, and founded new populations of rodents and primates. [4] The first South American primates gave rise to an impressive evolutionary radiation: more than 120 species in five families.
Primates of South America. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. : Miocene primates of South America (18 P)