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Rodent
| Rodent Temporal range: early Palaeocene – Recent
61.7 mya to present | |
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| Single rat | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Mirorder: | Simplicidentata |
| Order: | Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 |
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Sciuromorpha | |
Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw"), are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
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