Tsaganomys

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Tsaganomys
Fossil range: Early Oligocene to ?Early Miocene
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Hystricomorpha
Family: Tsaganomyidae
Genus: Tsaganomys
Matthew & Granger, 1923
Species: T. altaicus
Binomial name
Tsaganomys altaicus
Matthew & Granger, 1923

Tsaganomys altaicus is an extinct species of rodent from Asia, and the only species in the genus Tsaganomys.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Wang, B. (2001). "On Tsaganomyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of Asia". American Museum Novitates 3317: 1–50. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2001)317<0001:OTRMOA>2.0.CO;2.