| Baranomys kowalskii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | †Baranomys |
| Species: | †B. kowalskii |
| Binomial name | |
| †Baranomys kowalskii Kretzoi, 1959 | |
Baranomys kowalskii is extinct species of rodent, from the Baranomys genus of the Baranomyinae subfamily, of the Cricetidae family. It lived in Europe during Pliocene epoch, 15 million years ago, being one of the oldest known members of Baranomys family. It was an ancestor of modern Arvicolinae. The animal had been described by Miklós Kretzoi in 1959, who based his research on the fossils found near Podlesice village in Poland. It was named after a paleontologist and zoologist Kazimierz Kowalski.
References
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.
- Oldrich Fejfar, Heinrich Wolf-Dieter: Microtoid cricetids and the early history of arvicolids (Mammalia, Rodentia). In: Palaeontologia Electronica. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2011.
- 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.
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