Baranomys

{{Short description|Extinct genus of rodent}}

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|image = Baranomys longidens.jpg

|image_caption = Fossils of Baranomys longidens.

|taxon = Baranomys

|authority = Kormos, 1933

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Baranomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family.Wilson Don E., Reeder DeeAnn M. (editors): [http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000154 Arvicolinae]. In: Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 3. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. It lived in Pliocene epoch, and its fossils have been found in Canada, Germany,Oldřich Fejfar, Charles A. Repenning: [https://archive.today/20130428013038/http://www.springerlink.com/content/j2n7g00068468072/ The ancestors of the lemmings (Lemmini, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) in the early Pliocene of Wölfersheim near Frankfurt am Main]. In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 77 (1–2), p. 161-193, 1998. Senckenberg. DOI: 10.1007/BF03043739. Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland.[https://www.gbif.org/ 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 lóczyi n. g., n. sp., ein neues Nagetier aus dem Oberptiocän Ungarns. In: Állattani Közlemények. 30 (1/2), p. 45-54, 1933.