Baranomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family.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. It lived in the Pliocene epoch, and its fossils have been found in Canada, Germany,Oldřich Fejfar, Charles A. Repenning: . In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 77 (1–2), p. 161-193, 1998. Senckenberg. DOI: 10.1007/BF03043739. Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland.Global Biodiversity Information Facility It was an ancestor to modern Arvicolinae. The species was described for the first time by Theodor Kormos in 1933.Theodor Kormos: Baranomys loczy n. g., n. sp., ein neues Nagetier aus dem Oberpliocän Ungarns. In: Állattani Közlemények. 30 (1/2), p. 45-54, 1933.
Species Baranomys kowalskii Kretzoi, 1962 Baranomys langenhani Heller, 1937 Baranomys loczyi Kormos, 1933 Baranomys longidens Kowalski, 1960
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