Ailuravus is a genus of prehistoric rodents in the family Ischyromyidae.
Ailuravus is a genus of prehistoric rodents in the family Ischyromyidae.
thumb|Ailuravus macrurus and Strigogyps sapea|left Ailuravus macrurus ("big-tailed cat-ancestor") was a primitive, squirrel-like rodent, one of the earliest known rodents, from the Messel pit Lagerstätte, in Germany. It lived during the Eocene of Europe, in forests, and may have been arboreal.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).