Mylagaulidae

Mylagaulidae Temporal range: 28–5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Oligocene - Early Pliocene
Reconstruction of Ceratogaulus hatcheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Sciuromorpha
Family:	†Mylagaulidae Cope, 1881
Subfamilies
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The Mylagaulidae or mylagaulids are a prehistoric family of sciuromorph rodents. They are known from the Neogene of North America and China.^[1] The oldest member is the Late Oligocene from living some 29 million years ago (Mya), and the youngest was Ceratogaulus hatcheri—formerly in Epigaulus—which was found barely into the Pliocene, some 5 Mya.^[2]

Systematics[]

Three subfamilies are recognized. The taxonomy of is not resolved; it might belong in Mylagaulinae, but lacks the characteristic apomorphies.^[2]

Promylagaulinae

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• Genus - includes Mylagaulodon

Mylagaulinae

• Genus (paraphyletic^[2])
• Genus Ceratogaulus - includes Epigaulus
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• Genus Mylagaulus
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incertae sedis

• Genus - basal in Mylagaulinae?

Footnotes[]

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mylagaulidae.

• Hopkins, Samantha S.B. (2005): The evolution of fossoriality and the adaptive role of horns in the Mylagaulidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Proc. R. Soc. B 272(1573): 1705–1713. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3171 PDF fulltext^{[permanent dead link]}
• McKenna, M. C, and S. K. Bell (1997): Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11012-X

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