Mylagaulids Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Early Pliocene
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Reconstruction of Ceratogaulus hatcheri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Suborder: | Sciuromorpha |
Family: | †Mylagaulidae Cope, 1881 |
Subfamilies | |
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The Mylagaulidae or mylagaulids are an extinct clade of sciuromorph rodents nested within the family Aplodontiidae.[1][2] They are known from the Neogene of North America and China.[3][4] The oldest member is the Late Oligocene Trilaccogaulus montanensis that lived some 29 million years ago (Mya), and the youngest was Ceratogaulus hatcheri—formerly in the invalid genus "Epigaulus" [2][5]—which was found barely into the Pliocene, some 5 Mya.[6]
Three subfamilies are recognized. The taxonomy of Galbreathia is not resolved; it might belong in Mylagaulinae, but lacks the characteristic apomorphies.[6]
Promylagaulinae
Mesogaulinae
Mylagaulinae
Prehistoric families in order Rodentia | |
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Sciuromorpha |
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Castorimorpha | |
Myomorpha | |
Anomaluromorpha |
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Hystricomorpha |
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incertae sedis |
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See also: Category |