Faraframys

Faraframys is an extinct monotypic genus of lophiomyine rodent that lived in North Africa during the Tortonian stage of the Miocene epoch.

Etymology The generic name Faraframys, references the Farafra Oasis and the Greek word mys, meaning mouse. The specific epithet of the type species, Faraframys heissigi, honours Kurt Heissig, the first palaeontologist to scientifically describe Late Miocene rodents from the Western Desert of Egypt.

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