Vasseuromys Baudelot and de Bonis, 1966

Ruiz-Sánchez, Francisco J., Murelaga, Xabier, Freudenthal, Matthijs, Larrasoaña, Juan C. & Garcés, Miguel, 2012, A new species of glirid rodent Vasseuromys from the Aragonian (Miocene) of the Ebro Basin (north-eastern Spain), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (2), pp. 225-239 : 227-228

Genus Vasseuromys Baudelot and de Bonis, 1966 Type species: Vasseuromys rugosus Baudelot and de Bonis, 1966 ; Lower Miocene, Laugnac, France.

Original diagnosis ( Baudelot and de Bonis 1966, translated from French).—“[A medium−sized glirid having cheek teeth

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fossil locality sandstone yellow and red mudstone limestone gypsum grey mudstone with a concave occlusal surface. Lower molars characterised by a centrolophid reaching the labial border and by longitudinal prolongation of the labial cusps, which form a nearly continuous external wall.]”

Emended diagnosis ( de Bonis 1973).—The original diagnosis was later emended by adding that the upper molars have an endoloph.