Mimomys

Mimomys; Temporal range: Pliocene - Pleistocene, 5.3–.05 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil jaws (IVPP V13990) of M. gansunicus, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Tribe:	Arvicolini
Genus:	†Mimomys; Forsyth-Major, 1902

Mimomys is an extinct genus of voles that lived in Eurasia and North America during the Plio-Pleistocene. It is believed that one of the many species belonging to this genus gave rise to the modern water voles (Arvicola).^[2] Several other prehistoric genera of vole are probably synonymous with Mimomys, including the North American Cosomys^[3] and Ophiomys.^[4]

Several species are known to have survived into the Late Pleistocene, including M. pyrenaicus of France^[5] and M. chandolensis of the Russian Far East, which may have survived as recently as 50,000 BP.^[6]

References

^ "Mimomys". Fossilworks.
^ Gray, J.E. (1821). "On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals". The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review. 15: 296–310.
^ "Mimomys (Cosomys) primus". Smithsonian.
^ CHARLES A. REPENNING "Chapter 17," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2003(279), 469-512, (1 November 2003). https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2003)279<0469:C>2.0.CO;2
^ Jeannet, Marcel; Mourre, Vincent (2013). "Mimomys pyrenaicus nov. sp. nouvel arvicolidé (Mammalia, Rodentia) dans le Pléistocène supérieur des Pyrénées (Fréchet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrénées, France)". Paleo. 24 (24): 139–147. doi:10.4000/paleo.2570.
^ Tiunov, Mikhail; Golenishchev, F.N.; Voyta, Leonid (March 2016). "The First Finding of Mimomys in the Russian Far East". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61 (1). doi:10.4202/app.00082.2014. S2CID 54511108.

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[1] "Mimomys". Fossilworks.

[2] Gray, J.E. (1821). "On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals". The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review. 15: 296–310.

[3] "Mimomys (Cosomys) primus". Smithsonian.

[4] CHARLES A. REPENNING "Chapter 17," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2003(279), 469-512, (1 November 2003). https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2003)279<0469:C>2.0.CO;2

[5] Jeannet, Marcel; Mourre, Vincent (2013). "Mimomys pyrenaicus nov. sp. nouvel arvicolidé (Mammalia, Rodentia) dans le Pléistocène supérieur des Pyrénées (Fréchet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrénées, France)". Paleo. 24 (24): 139–147. doi:10.4000/paleo.2570.

[6] Tiunov, Mikhail; Golenishchev, F.N.; Voyta, Leonid (March 2016). "The First Finding of Mimomys in the Russian Far East". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61 (1). doi:10.4202/app.00082.2014. S2CID 54511108.

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Taxon identifiers
Mimomys	Wikidata: Q13390753 EoL: 4467828 GBIF: 4828489 IRMNG: 1273796 Open Tree of Life: 3610195 Paleobiology Database: 41812
Mimomys	Wikidata: Q107969499 EoL: 4467828 GBIF: 4828489 IRMNG: 1273796 Open Tree of Life: 3610195 Paleobiology Database: 41812