Baranomys kowalskii explained

Baranomys kowalskii is extinct species of rodent, from the Baranomys genus of the Baranomyinae subfamily,^[1] of the Cricetidae family.^[2] It lived in Europe during Pliocene epoch, 15 million years ago, being one of the oldest known members of Baranomys family.^[3] It was an ancestor of modern Arvicolinae.^[2] The animal had been described by Miklós Kretzoi in 1959, who based his research on the fossils found near Podlesice village in Poland.^[1] It was named after a paleontologist and zoologist Kazimierz Kowalski.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Florian Heller: Die Wühlmäuse (Mammalia, Rodentia, Arvicolidae) des Ältest- und Altpleistozäns Europas: Eine übersieht über die bisher bekannten Gattungen und Arten. In: Quartär – International Yearbook for Ice Age and Stone Age Research. 1, 1968. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (in German).
2. 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.
3. Oldrich Fejfar, Heinrich Wolf-Dieter: Microtoid cricetids and the early history of arvicolids (Mammalia, Rodentia). In: Palaeontologia Electronica. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2011.
4. Adam Nadachowski, Lars Werdelin (editors): Taxonomy names honoring Kazimierz Kowalski. In: Acta zoologica cracoviensia. 39 (1), p. xxix-xxx, 1996. Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN. ISSN 0065-1710.