Baranomys kowalskii

Baranomys kowalskii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	†Baranomys
Species:	†B. kowalskii
Binomial name
	†Baranomys kowalskii; Kretzoi, 1959

Baranomys kowalskii is extinct species of rodent, from the Baranomys genus of the Baranomyinae subfamily,[1] of the Cricetidae family.[2] It lived in Europe during Pliocene epoch, 15 million years ago, being one of the oldest known members of Baranomys family.[3] It was an ancestor of modern Arvicolinae.[2] The animal had been described by Miklós Kretzoi in 1959, who based his research on the fossils found near Podlesice village in Poland.[1] It was named after a paleontologist and zoologist Kazimierz Kowalski.[4]

References

Florian Heller: Die Wühlmäuse (Mammalia, Rodentia, Arvicolidae) des Ältest- und Altpleistozäns Europas: Eine übersieht über die bisher bekannten Gattungen und Arten. In: Quartär – International Yearbook for Ice Age and Stone Age Research. 1, 1968. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (in German).
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.
Oldrich Fejfar, Heinrich Wolf-Dieter: Microtoid cricetids and the early history of arvicolids (Mammalia, Rodentia). In: Palaeontologia Electronica. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2011.
Adam Nadachowski , Lars Werdelin (editors): Taxonomy names honoring Kazimierz Kowalski. In: Acta zoologica cracoviensia. 39 (1), p. xxix-xxx, 1996. Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN. ISSN 0065-1710.

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[one-1] Florian Heller: Die Wühlmäuse (Mammalia, Rodentia, Arvicolidae) des Ältest- und Altpleistozäns Europas: Eine übersieht über die bisher bekannten Gattungen und Arten. In: Quartär – International Yearbook for Ice Age and Stone Age Research. 1, 1968. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (in German).

[two-2] 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.

[3] Oldrich Fejfar, Heinrich Wolf-Dieter: Microtoid cricetids and the early history of arvicolids (Mammalia, Rodentia). In: Palaeontologia Electronica. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2011.

[4] Adam Nadachowski , Lars Werdelin (editors): Taxonomy names honoring Kazimierz Kowalski. In: Acta zoologica cracoviensia. 39 (1), p. xxix-xxx, 1996. Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN. ISSN 0065-1710.