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Mylagaulodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4828120	https://www.gbif.org/species/4828120
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41475	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41475

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Mylagaulidae : Mylagaulodon

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	Mylagaulodon	Sinclair 1903

Scientific Name

Mylagaulodon Sinclair, 1903

Name Published In

Amer. J. Sci., (4) 15

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mylagaulodon	genus	belongs to Mylagaulidae	stated without evidence	Sinclair, 1903
Mylagaulodon	genus	subjective synonym of Mylagaulus	stated without evidence	Matthew, 1924
Mylagaulodon	genus	belongs to Mylagaulidae	stated without evidence	McGrew, 1941
Mylagaulodon	genus	belongs to Mylagaulidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Mylagaulodon	genus	belongs to Mylagaulinae	stated with evidence	Lu et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

30.8 - 20.4 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. D. Matthew. 1924. Third contribution to the Snake Creek Fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 50:59-210

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mylagaulodon angulatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	30.8 Ma Oligocene	30.8 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1903	Mylagaulodon Sinclair
1941	Mylagaulodon McGrew
1970	Mylagaulodon Macdonald
1997	Mylagaulodon McKenna and Bell
2016	Mylagaulodon Lu et al.

References

Matthew W. D. (1924) Third contribution to the Snake Creek Fauna, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 50, 59-210

Macdonald J. R. (1970) Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota, Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8, 165-82

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

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

Amer. J. Sci., (4) 15 - 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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