Biology:Mylagaulus
Mylagaulus is an extinct genus of rodents in the family Mylagaulidae. Mylagaulus lived in the Americas during the middle to late Miocene.[1]
Description
Similar to the related genus Ceratogaulus, one species of Mylagaulus bore horns on the nasal bone, M. cornusaulax.[2] The osteology of the genus suggests it was fossorial, including a robust ulna and a deep ungual phalanx. The skull is wider than it is long, with broad zygomastes, and the cheek teeth are hypsodont. The dental formula of Mylagaulus is 1,0,1,3-01,0,1,3-0. [3]
Classification
Mylagaulus is placed within Mylagaulidae, close to Ceratogaulus. Historically, some species of Mylagaulus have been placed within Ceratogaulus and visa vera[4](C. minor has been intermittently placed as M. minor by some authors).[2]
References
- ↑ Mylagaulus at fossilworks.org
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Czaplewski, Nicholas J. (2012-01-01). "A Mylagaulus (Mammalia, Rodentia) with nasal horns from the Miocene (Clarendonian) of western Oklahoma". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012JVPal..32..139C/abstract.
- ↑ Fagan, Sylvia Robinson (1960) (in en). Osteology of Mylagaulus Laevis: A Fossorial Rodent from the Upper Miocene of Colorado. University. https://books.google.com/books/about/Osteology_of_Mylagaulus_Laevis.html?id=ApIjzwEACAAJ.
- ↑ 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. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020JSPal..18.1395C/abstract.
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