Mylagaulus
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
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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
References
- "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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