Mimomys
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| Mimomys Temporal range: Pliocene
- Pleistocene,
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| File:Mimomys IVPP.jpg | |
| Fossil jaws (IVPP V13990) of M. gansunicus, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Tribe: | Arvicolini |
| Genus: | †Mimomys Forsyth-Major, 1902[1] |
Mimomys is an extinct genus of voles that lived in Eurasia and North America during the Plio-Pleistocene. It is believed that one of the many species belonging to this genus gave rise to the modern water voles (Arvicola).[2] Several other prehistoric genera of vole are probably synonymous with Mimomys, including the North American Cosomys[3] and Ophiomys.[4]
Several species are known to have survived into the Late Pleistocene, including M. pyrenaicus of France[5] and M. chandolensis of the Russian Far East, which may have survived as recently as 50,000 BP.[6]
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Categories:
- Prehistoric mammals of Europe
- Prehistoric mammals of Asia
- Prehistoric mammals of North America
- Pliocene mammals of Europe
- Pliocene mammals of Asia
- Pliocene mammals of North America
- Pleistocene mammals of Europe
- Pleistocene mammals of Asia
- Pleistocene mammals of North America
- Pliocene rodents
- Pleistocene rodents
- Prehistoric rodents
- Pleistocene extinctions
- Arvicolini
- Arvicolinae stubs
- Prehistoric rodent stubs