Biology:Zenkerella wintoni

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Short description: Extinct species of rodent

Zenkerella wintoni
Temporal range: Early Miocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Zenkerellidae
Genus: Zenkerella
Species:
Z. wintoni
Binomial name
Zenkerella wintoni
Lavocat, 1973

Zenkerella wintoni is in extinct species of rodent from the family Zenkerellidae. It is known from a single mandible from Songhor, Kenya dated to the Early Miocene.[1]

Zenkarella wintoni along with its living relative have a highly derived molar morphology characterized by a simplified trilophodont pattern that is very different from that of other anomaluroids.[2]

References

  1. Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 290. ISBN 9780520257214. 
  2. Coster, Pauline M.C. (2015). "New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents". Front. Earth Sci. 3: 56. doi:10.3389/feart.2015.00056. Bibcode2015FrEaS...3...56C. 

Wikidata ☰ Q108583729 entry