Archetypomys

Archetypomys
Temporal range: early Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Archetypomyidae
Meng et al., 2007
Genus: Archetypomys
Meng et al., 2007
Species: A. erlianensis
Binomial name
Archetypomys erlianensis
Meng et al., 2007

Archetypomys is an extinct genus of early Eocene rodent and the only member of the family Archetypomyidae. A single species, Archetypomys erlianensis, has been described from Inner Mongolia. Archetypomys was a very small rodent intermediate in morphology between the basal rodent family Alagomyidae and more advanced rodents (Meng et al., 2007).

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