Microtodon 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 Pliocene epoch. It was described by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. in 1927.M. C. McKenna, S. K. Bell: Classification of mammals – above the species level. New York City: Columbia University Press, 1997, p. xii-631.
Species Microtodon atavus (Shotwell, 1924) Microtodon mimus (Shotwell, 1956)
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