Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Parent taxon: Phiomorpha according to D. Huchon and E. J. P. Douzery 2001
See also Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991 and Nowak 1999
Sister taxa: Birkamys, Mubhammys, Namaphiomys, Phiomyidae, Rupestromys, Turkanamys
Subtaxa: Bathyergoides Bathyergus Cryptomys Cyclomylus Geofossor Georychus Gypsorhynchus Heliophobius Heterocephalus Paracryptomys Proheliophobius Tsaganomyinae
Type: Bathyergus
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (3 collections), South Africa (26), Tanzania (3), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)
• Pliocene of South Africa (8), Tanzania (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (2)
• Miocene of Kenya (4), Mongolia (1), Namibia (1)
• Oligocene of China (19), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (1), Mongolia (52)
• Eocene of Namibia (1)
Total: 136 collections including 206 occurrences