Carpomys dakal

Carpomys dakal
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene to Holocene,
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Carpomys
Species:
†C. dakal
Binomial name
†Carpomys dakal
Ochoa, Mijares, Piper, Reyes, & Heaney, 2021

Carpomys dakal, the Sierra Madre giant cloud rat, is an extinct species of cloud rat from the Late Pleistocene of Luzon, the Philippines. Its remains are known from Callao Cave in the northern part of the island, dating to about 67,000 years ago, with the most recent remains dating from 2,000-4,000 years ago.

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