Mubhammys is an extinct genus of phiomorph rodent that lived in North Africa during the Priabonian and Rupelian stages of the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.[1]

Mubhammys
Temporal range: Priabonian–Rupelian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Rodentia
Parvorder: Phiomorpha
Genus: Mubhammys
Sallam and Seiffert, 2016
Species
  • Mubhammys vadumensis Sallam and Seiffert, 2016
  • Mubhammys atlanticus Marivaux et al., 2017

Description

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Unlike Mubhammys vadumensis, Mubhammys atlanticus has a mesolophule that is thin, well-defined, and oblique; the latter species also has a better-defined anterostyle and lingual anterocingulum than the former species.[2]

References

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  1. "Mubhammys". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  2. Marivaux, Laurent; Adnet, Sylvain; Benammi, Mohamed; Tabuce, Rodolphe; Yans, Johan; Benammi, Mouloud (3 September 2017). "Earliest Oligocene hystricognathous rodents from the Atlantic margin of northwestern Saharan Africa (Dakhla, Morocco): systematic, paleobiogeographical, and paleoenvironmental implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (5) e1357567. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1357567. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 23 June 2026 via Taylor and Francis Online.