Family Thryonomyidae Pocock 1922 (cane rat)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Thryonomyidae

Parent taxon: Thryonomyoidea according to H. M. Sallam and E. R. Seiffert 2019

See also Carroll 1988, Huchon and Douzery 2001, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Wood 1958

Sister taxa: Diamantomyidae, Diamantomys, Kahawamys, Kenyamyidae, Lavocatomys, Metaphiomys, Monamys, Myophiomyidae, Petromuridae, Phiomyoides, Prepomonomys, Simonimys

Subtaxa: Epiphiomys Kochalia Neophiomys Neosciuromys Paraphiomys Paraulacodus Protohummus Sacaresia Thryonomys

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (4 collections), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Ethiopia (8), Kenya (9), Niger (2), South Africa (1), Sudan (2), Swaziland (1), Tanzania (4), Zambia (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Tanzania (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)

• Miocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (10), Libya (3), Namibia (2), Pakistan (6), Saudi Arabia (2), Uganda (2), the United Arab Emirates (4)

• Oligocene of Egypt (2), Kenya (1), Libya (3), Morocco (2)

Total: 82 collections including 99 occurrences

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