Microtodon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: †Baranomyinae
Genus: †Microtodon
Miller, 1928

Microtodon is an extinct genus of rodent, from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family.[1] It lived in Pliocene epoch.[2] It was described by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. in 1928.[3]

Species

  • Microtodon atavus (Shotwell, 1924)[4]
  • Microtodon mimus (Shotwell, 1956)[4]

References

  1. ↑ Wilson Don E., Reeder DeeAnn M. (editors): Arvicolinae. In: Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 3. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  2. ↑ "Anatolomys Schaub, 1934". gbif.org.
  3. ↑ M. C. McKenna, S. K. Bell: Classification of mammals – above the species level. New York City: Columbia University Press, 1997, p. xii-631.
  4. 1 2 "Microtodon". mindat.org.
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