Mubhammys

Mubhammys; Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Order:	Rodentia
Parvorder:	Phiomorpha
Genus:	†Mubhammys; Sallam and Seiffert, 2016
Species
	Mubhammys vadumensis Sallam and Seiffert, 2016; Mubhammys atlanticus Marivaux et al., 2017;

Mubhammys is an extinct genus of phiomorph rodent that lived in North Africa during the Priabonian and Rupelian stages of the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.^[1]

Description

Unlike Mubhammys vadumensis, Mubhammys atlanticus has a mesolophule that is thin, well-defined, and oblique; the latter species also has a better-defined anterostyle and lingual anterocingulum than the former species.^[2]

References

↑ "Mubhammys". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
↑ Marivaux, Laurent; Adnet, Sylvain; Benammi, Mohamed; Tabuce, Rodolphe; Yans, Johan; Benammi, Mouloud (3 September 2017). "Earliest Oligocene hystricognathous rodents from the Atlantic margin of northwestern Saharan Africa (Dakhla, Morocco): systematic, paleobiogeographical, and paleoenvironmental implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (5) e1357567. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1357567. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 23 June 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.

[1] "Mubhammys". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 23 June 2026.

[2] Marivaux, Laurent; Adnet, Sylvain; Benammi, Mohamed; Tabuce, Rodolphe; Yans, Johan; Benammi, Mouloud (3 September 2017). "Earliest Oligocene hystricognathous rodents from the Atlantic margin of northwestern Saharan Africa (Dakhla, Morocco): systematic, paleobiogeographical, and paleoenvironmental implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (5) e1357567. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1357567. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 23 June 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.

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