Biology:Mylagaulus
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Short description: Extinct genus of rodents
Mylagaulus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | †Mylagaulidae |
Genus: | †Mylagaulus Cope, 1878 |
Type species | |
†Mylagaulus sesquipedalis Cope, 1878
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Mylagaulus is an extinct genus of rodents in the family Mylagaulidae. Mylagaulus lived in the Americas during the middle to late Miocene.[1] The genus contains the following species:[1][2]
- M. cambridgensis
- M. cornusaulax Czaplewski, 2012 – Miocene, Oklahoma (United States )
- M. elassos
- M. kinseyi
- M. sesquipedalis
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mylagaulus at fossilworks.org
- ↑ Nicholas J. Czaplewski (2012). "A Mylagaulus (Mammalia, Rodentia) with nasal horns from the Miocene (Clarendonian) of western Oklahoma". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (1): 139–150. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.620677.
Wikidata ☰ Q6947618 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylagaulus.
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