| Archetypomys Temporal range: early Eocene
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| Family: | †Archetypomyidae Meng et al., 2007
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| Genus: | †Archetypomys Meng et al., 2007
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| Species: | †A. erlianensis
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| †Archetypomys erlianensis Meng et al., 2007
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Archetypomys is an extinct genus of early Eocene rodent and the only member of the family Archetypomyidae. A single species, Archetypomys erlianensis, has been described from Inner Mongolia. Archetypomys was a very small rodent intermediate in morphology between the basal rodent family Alagomyidae and more advanced rodents (Meng et al., 2007).