Zenkerella wintoni
| Zenkerella wintoni Temporal range: Early Miocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Zenkerellidae |
| Genus: | Zenkerella |
| Species: | †Z. wintoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Zenkerella wintoni Lavocat, 1973 | |
Zenkerella wintoni is in extinct species of rodent from the family Zenkerellidae. It is known from a single mandible from Songhor, Kenya dated to the Early Miocene.[1]
Zenkarella wintoni along with its living relative have a highly derived molar morphology characterized by a simplified trilophodont pattern that is very different from that of other anomaluroids.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 290. ISBN 9780520257214.
- ^ Coster, Pauline M.C. (2015). "New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents". Front. Earth Sci. 3: 56. Bibcode:2015FrEaS...3...56C. doi:10.3389/feart.2015.00056. hdl:1808/22093.