Microtodon is an extinct genus of rodent, from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family.[1] It lived in Pliocene epoch.[2] It was described by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. in 1928.[3]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | †Baranomyinae |
Genus: | †Microtodon Miller, 1928 |
Species
edit- Microtodon atavus (Shotwell, 1924)[4]
- Microtodon mimus (Shotwell, 1956)[4]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Anatolomys Schaub, 1934". gbif.org.
- ^ M. C. McKenna, S. K. Bell: Classification of mammals – above the species level. New York City: Columbia University Press, 1997, p. xii-631.
- ^ a b "Microtodon". mindat.org.