Eomys

Taxobox
name = "Eomys"
fossil_range =

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image_caption = Life restoration of "Eomys"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
subordo = Castorimorpha
infraordo =
familia = Eomyidae
genus="Eomys"
genus_authority=Schlosser, 1884
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"E. zitteli" Schlosser, 1884 (type)
*"E. alulghensis"
*"E. antiquus"
*"E. fahlbuschi"
*"E. huerzeleri"
*"E. quercyi"
*"E. rhodanicus"

"Eomys" is an extinct genus of eomyid rodent from the late Oligocene of France, Germany, Spain, and possibly Turkey. It is the earliest known gliding rodent (Storch "et al.", 1996).

ources

* Storch G., Engesser, B. and Wuttke, M. 1996. Oldest fossil record of gliding in rodents. "Nature" 379:439-441.
* "After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals" (Life of the Past) by Donald R. Prothero
* "Vertebrate Palaeontology" by Michael J. Benton
* "The Beginning of the Age of Mammals" by Kenneth D. Rose
* "Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids" by Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=41621 "Eomys"] in the Paleobiology Database