Mylagaulidae
| Mylagaulids Temporal range:
Early Pliocene | |
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| Reconstruction of Ceratogaulus hatcheri
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Sciuromorpha |
| Family: | †Mylagaulidae Cope, 1881 |
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The Mylagaulidae or mylagaulids are an extinct clade of
Ceratogaulus hatcheri—formerly in the invalid genus "Epigaulus" [2][5]—which was found barely into the Pliocene, some 5 Mya.[6]
Systematics
Three
apomorphies.[6]
Promylagaulinae
- Genus Crucimys
- Genus Promylagaulus
- Genus Trilaccogaulus
- Genus Simpligaulus
- Genus Mesogaulus - includes Mylagaulodon
Mylagaulinae
- Genus paraphyletic[6])
- Genus Ceratogaulus- includes "Epigaulus"
- Genus Hesperogaulus
- Genus Mylagaulus
- Genus Notogaulus
- Genus Pterogaulus
- Genus Umbogaulus
- Genus Galbreathia - basal in Mylagaulinae?
Footnotes
- S2CID 219902187.
- ^ hdl:1794/10750.
- S2CID 254412481.
- ^ Wu; et al. "Mylagaulids (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the early Middle Miocene of northern Junggar Basin" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
- S2CID 86013119.
- ^ a b c Hopkins (2005)
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). ]
- 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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