Zenkerella wintoni

Zenkerella wintoni
Temporal range: Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Zenkerellidae
Genus: Zenkerella
Species:
†Z. wintoni
Binomial name
†Zenkerella wintoni
Lavocat, 1973

Zenkerella wintoni is in extinct species of rodent from the family Zenkerellidae. It is known from a single mandible from Songhor, Kenya dated to the Early Miocene.

Zenkarella wintoni along with its living relative have a highly derived molar morphology characterized by a simplified trilophodont pattern that is very different from that of other anomaluroids.

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