Mylagaulus

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Mylagaulus
Temporal range: 13.6–5.33 Ma
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Mylagaulidae
Genus: Mylagaulus
Cope, 1878
Type species
Mylagaulus sesquipedalis
Cope, 1878

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]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Mylagaulus at fossilworks.org
  2. ^ 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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