Biology:Baranomys
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Short description: Extinc genus of rodent
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| Fossils of Baranomys longidens. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | †Baranomyinae |
| Genus: | †Baranomys Kormos, 1933 |
Baranomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family.[1] It lived in Pliocene epoch, and its fossils have been found in Canada ,[2] Germany ,[3] Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland .[2] It was an ancestor to modern Arvicolinae.[1] The species was described for the first time by Theodor Kormos in 1933.[4]
Species
- Baranomys kowalskii Kretzoi, 1962
- Baranomys langenhani Heller, 1937
- Baranomys loczyi Kormos, 1933
- Baranomys longidens Kowalski, 1960
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Oldřich Fejfar, Charles A. Repenning: The ancestors of the lemmings (Lemmini, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) in the early Pliocene of Wölfersheim near Frankfurt am Main. In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 77 (1–2), p. 161-193, 1998. Senckenberg. DOI: 10.1007/BF03043739.
- ↑ Theodor Kormos: Baranomys lóczyi n. g., n. sp., ein neues Nagetier aus dem Oberptiocän Ungarns. In: Állattani Közlemények. 30 (1/2), p. 45-54, 1933.
Wikidata ☰ Q11687331 entry
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