Dipoides

Dipoides
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Late Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Castoridae
Tribe: †Castoroidini
Genus: †Dipoides
Jäger, 1835

Dipoides is an extinct genus of beaver-grouped rodents.[1][2]

Dipoides were approximately three to four times larger than modern Canadian beavers - ranging from 90 - 120KG.[2] Where modern beavers have square chisel shaped teeth, Dipoides teeth were rounded. However an excavation of a site that was once a marsh, in Ellesmere Island, showed signs that they dined on bark and young trees, like modern beavers. The excavation seemed to show that, like modern beavers, Dipoides dammed streams.[3] Other research suggests that the building of dams by Dipoides started as a side effect to the consumption of wood and bark, and was a specialization that evolved for cold weather survival due to the earth's cooling during the late Neogene period.[4]

Natalia Rybczynski, of the Canadian Museum of Nature, analyzed the teeth, and wood chips, of modern beavers, and Dipoides.[2] She concluded that they all used just one of their teeth at a time, when cutting down trees. She concluded that modern beavers' square teeth required half as many bites as Dipoides' less evolved round teeth.

Rybczynski argues that eating bark and building dams are unlikely to have evolved twice, so modern beavers and Dipoides shared a wood-eating common ancestor, 24 million years ago.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ McKenna, Malcolm C. & Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231528535. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  2. ^ a b c d Frances Backhouse (2015). Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver. ECW/ORIM. ISBN 9781770907553. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  3. ^ a b Ben Goldfarb (2018). Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter. Chelsea Green Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 9781603587402. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  4. ^ Plint, Tessa; Longstaffe, Fred J.; Ballantyne, Ashley; Telka, Alice; Rybczynski, Natalia (2020-08-04). "Evolution of woodcutting behaviour in Early Pliocene beaver driven by consumption of woody plants". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 13111. Bibcode:2020NatSR..1013111P. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-70164-1. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7403313. PMID 32753594.


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