Brachyrhizomys
Appearance
Brachyrhizomys Temporal range: Miocene to Pleistocene about 8.7-0.781 mya
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Spalacidae |
Tribe: | Rhizomyini |
Genus: | †Brachyrhizomys Teilhard de Jardin, 1942 |
Species | |
10 species |
Brachyrhizomys is an extinct genus of ground-dwelling herbivorous rodent that lived in Miocene to Pleistocene of China and India.
Species
- Brachyrhizomys blacki
- Brachyrhizomys choristos
- Brachyrhizomys hehoensis
- Brachyrhizomys micrurus
- Brachyrhizomys nagrii
- Brachyrhizomys naquensis
- Brachyrhizomys pilgrimi
- Brachyrhizomys pinjoricus
- Brachyrhizomys tetracharax
External links
- Brachyrhizomys tetracharax at Paleozoological Museum of China official website (Chinese)
- Brachyrhizomys at fossilworks