†Mylagaulus elassos Baskin 1980 (rodent)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Full reference: J. A. Baskin. 1980. Evolutionary reversal in Mylagaulus (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Miocene of Florida. American Midland Naturalist 104(1):155-162
Belongs to Mylagaulus according to J. A. Baskin 1980
Sister taxa: Mylagaulus cambridgensis, Mylagaulus kinseyi, Mylagaulus sesquipedalis
Type specimen: UF 24184, a tooth (left [lower] P4). Its type locality is Love Bone Bed, which is in a Clarendonian marginal marine horizon in the Alachua Formation of Florida.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Love Bone Bed
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