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Taxonomy
Graphiurus was named by Smuts (1832). It is extant. Its type is Graphiurus ocularis.
It was assigned to Dryomyinae by Daams and de Bruijn (1995); and to Gliridae by Montgelard et al. (2002).
It was assigned to Dryomyinae by Daams and de Bruijn (1995); and to Gliridae by Montgelard et al. (2002).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1832 | Graphiurus Smuts |
1995 | Graphiurus Daams and de Bruijn p. 9 |
2002 | Graphiurus Montgelard et al. p. 228 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Graphiurus Smuts 1832
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Graphiurus murinus Desmarest 1822
Graphiurus ocularis Smith 1829
Graphiurus parvus True 1893
Graphiurus platyops Thomas 1897
Graphiurus saturatus Dollman 1910
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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R. Daams and H. de Bruijn 1995 | Crowns of chcek teeth concave. with low main external cusps; the general arrangement in pattern evidently near Eliomys, but the ridges in most indistinct, and a general tendency towards simplification. The premolars are usually only moderately reduced; but in the type species are strongly reduced. (from Ellerman (1941), dental characteristics only) |
Measurements
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References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Collections (11 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Messinian - Piacenzian | South Africa (Cape) | G. sp. (59167) | |
Pliocene | South Africa | G. monardi (22339 22341 22353) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa | G. sp. (22333 22334) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | G. murinus (21949) | |
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | G. sp. (22272) | |
Holocene | South Africa (N. Transraal) | G. murinus (21693) | |
Holocene | Cote D'Ivoire | G. hueti, G. murinus (21692) | |
Holocene | Zambia | G. murinus (21894) |