Mimomys

Mimomys is an extinct genus of voles that lived in Eurasia and North America during the Plio-Pleistocene. It is believed that one of the many species belonging to this genus gave rise to the modern water voles (Arvicola).^[2] Several other prehistoric genera of vole are probably synonymous with Mimomys, including the North American Cosomys^[3] and Ophiomys.^[4]

Mimomys Temporal range: Pliocene - Pleistocene, 5.3–.05 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil jaws (IVPP V13990) of M. gansunicus, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Tribe:	Arvicolini
Genus:	†Mimomys Forsyth-Major, 1902[1]

Several species are known to have survived into the Late Pleistocene, including M. pyrenaicus of France^[5] and M. chandolensis of the Russian Far East, which may have survived as recently as 50,000 BP.^[6]