North American Porcupine Brain Replica
$26.00
North American porcupine brain replica measures 2.0 x 1.2 x 1.1 inches. Erethizon dorsatum brain is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast from CAS specimen. 1.1 scale.
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Description
North American Porcupine Brain Replica for Osteology
North American porcupine brain replica measures 2.0 x 1.2 x 1.1 inches. Erethizon dorsatum brain is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast from CAS specimen. 1.1 scale. Made in USA.
The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family.
It is the second largest rodent in North America after the North American beaver (Castor canadensis).
The porcupine is a caviomorph rodent whose ancestors were believed to have crossed the Atlantic from Africa to Brazil 30 million years ago, and then migrated to North America during the Great American Interchange after the Isthmus of Panama rose 3 million years ago.
The North American porcupine migrated from South America, where all New World porcupines or hystricomorphs evolved.
Erethizon appeared in North America shortly after the two continents joined together in the later Tertiary period. Other hystricomorphs also migrated, but Erethizon was the only one to survive north of Mexico.
Scientific Classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Family: Erethizontidae
- Subfamily: Erethizontinae
- Genus: Erethizon
- Species: E. dorsatum
- Binomial name: Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Conservation status: Least concern (IUCN 3.1)
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Additional information
| Weight | 2.0 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 2.0 × 1.2 × 1.1 in |
