Burgia is an extinct genus of Palaeogene rodents belonging to the family Theridomyidae. It is more specifically classified to the subfamily Patriotheridomyinae and contains one species Burgia marandati. The type and only species was originally classified to another genus name Bernardia by Monique Vianey-Liaud in 1991 before the genus name usage was rendered invalid due to it being preoccupied by a scale insect in 1891. Burgia marandati is known from a holotype consisting of a lower molar from the French locality of Lavergne that dates to the middle Eocene. The genus is named after the Bach mayor Pierre Burg, who assisted palaeontologists in their research locally.[1][2]

Burgia
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Theridomyidae
Genus: Burgia
Vianey-Liaud et al., 2024
Species:
B. marandati
Binomial name
Burgia marandati
Vianey-Liaud, 1991

References

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  1. ^ Vianey-Liaud, Monique; Weppe, Romain; Marivaux, Laurent (2024). "Enigmatic rodents from Lavergne, a late middle Eocene (MP 16) fissure-filling of the Quercy Phosphorites (Southwest France)". Palaeovertebrata. doi:10.18563/pv.47.2.e1.
  2. ^ Vianey-Liaud, Monique (1991). "Un Theridomyidae (mammalia, rodentia)très hypsodonte dans l'éocène supérieur (MP 16) du Quercy". Geobios: 79–88. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(66)80012-8.