†Ansomys crucifer Lopatin 1997 (mountain beaver)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Full reference: A. V. Lopatin. 1997. The First Finding of Ansomys (Aplodontidae, Rodentia, Mammalia) in the Miocene of Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 31(6):667-670
Belongs to Ansomys according to S. B. Hopkins 2004
Sister taxa: Ansomys cyanotephrus, Ansomys descendens, Ansomys hepburnensis, Ansomys nevadensis, Ansomys orientalis, Ansomys shantungensis, Ansomys shanwangensis
Type specimen: PIN, no. 4516/202, a tooth (Left P4). Its type locality is Altynshokysu (bone bed IV), which is in an Oligocene terrestrial claystone in the Aral Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Altynshokysu (bone bed IV)
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