| Baranomys | |
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| Fossils of Baranomys longidens. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | †Baranomyinae |
| Genus: | †Baranomys Kormos, 1933 |
Baranomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family. It lived in Pliocene epoch, and its fossils have been found in Canada, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland. It was an ancestor to modern Arvicolinae. The species was described for the first time by Theodor Kormos in 1933.
Species
- Baranomys kowalskii Kretzoi, 1962
- Baranomys langenhani Heller, 1937
- Baranomys loczyi Kormos, 1933
- Baranomys longidens Kowalski, 1960
References
- ^ Wilson Don E., Reeder DeeAnn M. (editors): Arvicolinae. In: Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 3. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
- ^ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Oldřich Fejfar, Charles A. Repenning: The ancestors of the lemmings (Lemmini, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) in the early Pliocene of Wölfersheim near Frankfurt am Main. In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 77 (1–2), p. 161-193, 1998. Senckenberg. DOI: 10.1007/BF03043739.
- Theodor Kormos: Baranomys lóczyi n. g., n. sp., ein neues Nagetier aus dem Oberptiocän Ungarns. In: Állattani Közlemények. 30 (1/2), p. 45-54, 1933.
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