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Ceratogaulus ✝

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Description

Horned gophers are extinct rodents from the genus Ceratogaulus, a member of the extinct fossorial rodent family Mylagaulidae. Ceratogaulus is the only known rodent genus with horns, and is the smallest known horned mammal. Ceratogaulus lived from the late Miocene to the early Pliocene epochs.

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4828116	https://www.gbif.org/species/4828116
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41470	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41470

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Mylagaulidae : Ceratogaulus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
family	Mylagaulidae	Cope 1881
subfamily	Mylagaulinae	Cope 1881
genus	Ceratogaulus	Matthew 1902

Scientific Name

Ceratogaulus Matthew, 1902

Name Published In

Bull. Amer. Mus., 16

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ceratogaulus	genus	belongs to Mylagaulidae	stated without evidence	Matthew, 1902
Ceratogaulus	genus	belongs to Mylagaulinae	stated with evidence	Korth, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 13.6 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratogaulus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ceratogaulus anecdotus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	23.0 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Ceratogaulus rhinocerus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Ceratogaulus robustus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Epigaulus hatcheri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	13.6 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Epigaulus minor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1902	Ceratogaulus Matthew
2000	Ceratogaulus Korth
2013	Ceratogaulus Korth p. 234
2016	Ceratogaulus Lu et al.

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Korth W. W. (2000) Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska, Annals of Carnegie Museum 69 4, 227-280

Korth W. W. (2013) Mylagaulid Rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia: Mylagaulidae) from the Middle Miocene (Barstovian) of New Mexico, Annals of Carnegie Museum 81 4, 233-245 doi:10.2992/007.081.0403

Lu X., Ni X., et al (2016) Two New Mylagaulid Rodents from the Early Miocene of China, PLoS ONE 11 e0159445, 1-17 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159445

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Amer. Mus., 16 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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