Extinct genus of rodents
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Archetypomys | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | †Archetypomyidae Meng et al., 2007 |
Genus: | †Archetypomys Meng et al., 2007 |
Species: | †A. erlianensi
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Binomial name | |
†Archetypomys erlianensi Meng et al. 2007
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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.
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