Eomys

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Eomys
Life restoration of Eomys
Life restoration of Eomys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Castorimorpha
Family: Eomyidae
Genus: Eomys
Schlosser, 1884
Species
  • E. zitteli Schlosser, 1884 (type)
  • E. alulghensis
  • E. antiquus
  • E. fahlbuschi
  • E. huerzeleri
  • E. quercyi
  • E. rhodanicus

Eomys is an extinct genus of eomyid rodent from the late Oligocene of France, Germany, Spain, and possibly Turkey. It is the earliest known gliding rodent (Storch et al., 1996).

[edit] Sources

  • Storch G., Engesser, B. and Wuttke, M. 1996. Oldest fossil record of gliding in rodents. Nature 379:439-441.
  • After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past) by Donald R. Prothero
  • Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton
  • The Beginning of the Age of Mammals by Kenneth D. Rose
  • Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton

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