Mylagaulus

Mylagaulus
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: †Mylagaulidae
Genus: †
Cope, 1878
Type species
†Mylagaulus sesquipedalis
Cope, 1878
Restoration of Mylagaulus (lower left) and other animals of the Mascall assemblage

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". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  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. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..139C. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.620677.
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