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Article: New species of Paraphiomys (Rodentia, Thryonomyidae) from the Lower Miocene of As-Sarrar, Saudia Arabia

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 48
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2005
Page(s): 223 233
Author(s): Raquel López Antoñanzas and Sevket Sen
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ANTOÑANZAS, R., SEN, S. 2005. New species of Paraphiomys (Rodentia, Thryonomyidae) from the Lower Miocene of As-Sarrar, Saudia Arabia. Palaeontology48, 2, 223–233.

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Abstract

The family Thryonomyidae is represented in the Lower Miocene of Saudi Arabia by a single species, Paraphiomys knolli sp. nov. This new taxon differs from all other thryonomyids in being small, lower molars having a short metalophulid II and an isolated anterolabial cuspid, and upper molars being antero-posteriorly compressed and pentalophodont. A cladistic analysis involving all extinct and extant species of thryonomyids is provided. Paraphiomys knolli branches as the sister-species of Paraphiomys pigotti, type species of the genus.
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