Baranomys Explained

Baranomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family.^[1] It lived in Pliocene epoch, and its fossils have been found in Canada, Germany,^[2] Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland.^[3] It was an ancestor to modern Arvicolinae.^[1] The species was described for the first time by Theodor Kormos in 1933.^[4]

Species

• Baranomys kowalskii Kretzoi, 1962
• Baranomys langenhani Heller, 1937
• Baranomys loczyi Kormos, 1933
• Baranomys longidens Kowalski, 1960

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. https://www.gbif.org/ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
4. 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.