Eomys
| Eomys Temporal range: Late Oligocene,
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| Life restoration of Eomys quercyi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | †Eomyidae |
| Genus: | †Eomys Schlosser, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| †Eomys zitteli Schlosser, 1884
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Eomys is an extinct genus of eomyid rodent from the late Oligocene of France, Germany, Spain, and possibly Turkey. The species Eomys quercyi is the earliest known gliding rodent.[1][2]
Species
[edit]Source: mindat.org[3]
- E. alulghensis Cuenca & Canudo, 1994
- E. antiquus (Aymard, 1853)
- E. ebnatensis Engesser, 1987
- E. fahlbuschi Ünay-Bayraktar, 1989
- E. gigas Comte & Vianey-Liaud, 1987
- E. helveticus Engesser & Kalin, 2017
- E. huerzeleri Engesser, 1982
- E. major Freudenberg, 1941
- E. molassicus Engesser, 1987
- E. minor Comte & Vianey-Liaud, 1987
- E. quercyi Comte & Vianey-Liaud, 1987
- E. schluneggeri Engesser & Kalin, 2017
References
[edit]- ^ Storch, G.; Engesser, B.; Wuttke, M. (1996). "Oldest fossil record of gliding in rodents". Nature. 379 (6564): 439–441. Bibcode:1996Natur.379..439S. doi:10.1038/379439a0. S2CID 4326465.
- ^ Engesser, B.; Kälin, D. (2017). "Eomys helveticus n. sp. and Eomys schluneggeri n. sp., two new small eomyids of the Chattian (MP 25/MP 26) subalpine Lower Freshwater Molasse of Switzerland" (PDF). Fossil Imprint. 73 (1–2): 213–224. doi:10.2478/if-2017-0012.
- ^ "Eomys". www.mindat.org.
External links
[edit]- Eomys in the Paleobiology Database
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