Bathyergoides
Extinct genus of rodents
| Bathyergoides Temporal range: Early Miocene ~21 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Parvorder: | Phiomorpha |
| Family: | †Bathyergoididae Lavocat, 1973 |
| Genus: | †Bathyergoides Stromer 1923 |
| Species | |
| B. neotertiarius (type) | |
Bathyergoides is an extinct genus of rodent from Africa thought to be related to the modern blesmols. It is the only member of the family Bathyergoididae.[citation needed] Fossils of Bathyergoides neotertiarius were recovered from the Early Miocene Elisabeth Bay Formation of Namibia.[1]
References
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- ^ Pickford, 2018, p. 88
Bibliography
- Pickford, Martin (2018). "Tenrecoid mandible from Elisabethfeld (Early Miocene) Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 18: 87–92. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
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Prehistoric families in order Rodentia
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Eutheria
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires
- Allomyidae
- Mylagaulidae
- Reithroparamyidae
- Parapedetidae
- Tamquammyidae
- Gobiomyidae
- Yuomyidae
- Chapattimyidae
- Tsaganomyidae
- "Baluchimyinae"
- Bathyergoididae
- Myophiomyidae
- Diamantomyidae
- Phiomyidae
- Kenyamyidae
- Cephalomyidae
- Eocardiidae
- Neoepiblemidae
- Heptaxodontidae
- Eurymylidae
- Alagomyidae
- Archetypomyidae
- Cocomyidae
- Ivanantoniidae
- Laredomyidae
- Ischyromyidae
- Theridomyidae
- Protoptychidae
- Zegdoumyidae
- Sciuravidae
- Cylindrodontidae
- Zelomyidae
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