| Tsaganomyidae Temporal range: Early Oligocene to ?Early Miocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Hystricomorpha |
| Family: | †Tsaganomyidae Matthew & Granger, 1923 |
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†Tsaganomys |
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Tsaganomyidae is an extinct family of rodents from Asia. It contains three genera.[1] Tsaganomyids are generally considered to be related to the Hystricognathi (porcupines and relatives).[2] Members of Tsaganomyidae were fossorial (digging) rodents that probably used their incisor teeth to dig like some living mole rats.[3]
Tsaganomyids had a protrogomorphous zygomasseteric system, a hystricognathous lower jaw, and multiserial enamel in their incisor teeth.[3]
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