| Mylagaulus Temporal range: | |
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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 | |
Restoration of Mylagaulus (lower left) and other animals of the Mascall assemblage
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 2 "Mylagaulus". Fossilworks. Retrieved 18 April 2021 from the Paleobiology Database.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ 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.
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