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The fossil rodent Antemus is the oldest member of the most diverse family of extant mammals. It is known from the Miocene of southern Asia as part of a distinctive evolving fauna with complex biogeographic relationships to Europe, Africa, and other parts of Asia. The Neogene small mammal record in southern Asia, of which Antemus is a part, is dominated by muroid rodents. The Siwalik section of the Potwar Plateau, northern Pakistan, provides most of the available fossil evidence for the history of southern Asian rodents.
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Jacobs, L.L., Flynn, L.J., Downs, W.R., Barry, J.C. (1990). Quo Vadis, Antemus? The Siwalik Muroid Record. In: Lindsay, E.H., Fahlbusch, V., Mein, P. (eds) European Neogene Mammal Chronology. NATO ASI Series, vol 180. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_34
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