Cryptomys Gray 1964 (mole rat)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Parent taxon: Bathyergidae according to R. L. Honeycutt et al. 1987
See also McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Bathyergoides, Bathyergus, Cyclomylus, Geofossor, Georychus, Gypsorhynchus, Heliophobius, Heterocephalus, Paracryptomys, Proheliophobius, Tsaganomyinae
Subtaxa: Cryptomys damarensis Cryptomys hottentotus
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of South Africa (9 collections), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)
• Pliocene of South Africa (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
Total: 19 collections including 22 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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