Mylagaulus

Mylagaulus; Temporal range: 13.6–5.33 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	†Mylagaulidae
Genus:	†Mylagaulus; Cope, 1878
Type species
	†Mylagaulus sesquipedalis; Cope, 1878

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

References

^ ^a ^b "Mylagaulus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
^ 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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[fossilworks-1] "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. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.620677.

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