Steneofiber

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iSteneofiber
Fossil range: Early Oligocene - Middle Miocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Castorimorpha
Family: Castoridae
Genus: Steneofiber
Geoffroy, 1833
Species
  • S. depereti
  •  ?S. jaegeri

Steneofiber is an extinct genus of beaver from Eurasia.

This small, 30 cm (1 ft) long creature probably lived in large fresh water lakes, like present day beavers. Most likely, it was incapable of bringing down trees like its modern relatives. Steneofiber was more terrestrial than modern beavers, living in burrows.