Horned gopher
| Horned gopher Temporal range: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene, | |
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| Ceratogaulus hatcheri skeleton, Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | †Mylagaulidae |
| Genus: | †Ceratogaulus Matthew, 1902 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Epigaulus | |
Horned gophers are extinct rodents from the genus Ceratogaulus, a member of the extinct fossorial rodent clade Mylagaulidae. Ceratogaulus is the only known rodent genus with horns, and is the smallest known horned mammal. Ceratogaulus lived from the late Miocene to the early Pliocene epochs, 16.3 to 5.3 million years ago.