Mylagaulidae

Mylagaulidae
Temporal range: 28–5 Ma

Late Oligocene - Early Pliocene

Reconstruction of Ceratogaulus hatcheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Sciuromorpha
Superfamily: Aplodontoidea
Family: Mylagaulidae
Cope, 1881
Subfamilies

see text

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 Trilaccogaulus montanensis 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 Galbreathia is not resolved; it might belong in Mylagaulinae, but lacks the characteristic apomorphies.[2]

Promylagaulinae

Mesogaulinae

Mylagaulinae

incertae sedis

Footnotes

  1. McKenna & Bell (1997)
  2. 1 2 3 Hopkins (2005)

References

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