Biology:Mylagaulidae
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Short description: Extinct family of rodents
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Sciuromorpha |
| Family: | †Mylagaulidae Cope, 1881 |
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The Mylagaulidae or mylagaulids are an extinct clade of sciuromorph rodents nested within the family Aplodontiidae.[1][2] They are known from the Neogene of North America and China .[3][4] The oldest member is the Late Oligocene Trilaccogaulus montanensis that lived some 29 million years ago (Mya), and the youngest was Ceratogaulus hatcheri—formerly in the invalid genus "Epigaulus" [2][5]—which was found barely into the Pliocene, some 5 Mya.[6]
Systematics
Three subfamilies are recognized. The taxonomy of Galbreathia is not resolved; it might belong in Mylagaulinae, but lacks the characteristic apomorphies.[6]
Promylagaulinae
- Genus Crucimys
- Genus Promylagaulus
- Genus Trilaccogaulus
- Genus Simpligaulus
Mesogaulinae
- Genus Mesogaulus - includes Mylagaulodon
Mylagaulinae
- Genus Alphagaulus (paraphyletic[6])
- Genus Ceratogaulus - includes "Epigaulus"
- Genus Hesperogaulus
- Genus Mylagaulus
- Genus Notogaulus
- Genus Pterogaulus
- Genus Umbogaulus
- Genus Galbreathia - basal in Mylagaulinae?
Footnotes
- ↑ Calede, Jonathan J. M.; Samuels, Joshua X. (2020-09-01). "A new species of Ceratogaulus from Nebraska and the evolution of nasal horns in Mylagaulidae (Mammalia, Rodentia, Aplodontioidea)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18 (17): 1395–1414. doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1765889. ISSN 1477-2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2020.1765889.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hopkins, Samantha S. B. (August 2008). "Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the Aplodontoidea (Mammalia: Rodentia)" (in en). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (4): 769–838. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00399.x.
- ↑ Tesakov, A. S.; Lopatin, A. V. (January 2015). "First record of Mylagaulid rodents (Rodentia, mammalia) from the Miocene of Eastern Siberia (Olkhon island, Baikal Lake, Irkutsk Region, Russia)" (in en). Doklady Biological Sciences 460 (1): 23–26. doi:10.1134/S0012496615010032. ISSN 0012-4966. PMID 25773245. http://link.springer.com/10.1134/S0012496615010032.
- ↑ Wu. "Mylagaulids (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the early Middle Miocene of northern Junggar Basin". http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201301/P020130131415808799881.pdf.
- ↑ Korth, William W. (September 2013). "Mylagaulid Rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia: Mylagaulidae) from the Middle Miocene (Barstovian) of New Mexico" (in en). Annals of Carnegie Museum 81 (4): 233–245. doi:10.2992/007.081.0403. ISSN 0097-4463. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2992/007.081.0403.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Hopkins (2005)
References
- McKenna, M. C, and S. K. Bell (1997): Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. ISBN:0-231-11012-X
Wikidata ☰ Q3622165 entry
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