Parent taxon: Muridae according to S. J. Steppan et al. 2004
See also Lundelius and Turnbull 1999 and Ruedas and Kirsch 1997
Sister taxa: Aethomys, Afrocricetodontinae, Allorattus, Anthracomys, Apodemus, Arvicanthis, Bolomys, Castillomys, Castorina, Castromys, Centralomys, Chiropodomys, Colomys, Dasymys, Deomyinae, Echymina, Extrarius, Gerbillinae, Gerbua, Grammomys, Hapalomys, Huaxiamys, Huerzelerimys, Hydromina, Hyomys, Karnimata, Kritimys, Lemniscomys, Mastacomys, Mastomys, Micromys, Mikrotia, Murina, Myocricetodontinae, Myotomys, Mysops, Nesokia, Occitanomys, Orientalomys, Papagomys, Paraethomys, Parapelomys, Parapodemus, Parotomys, Pelomys, Praomys, Proceromys, Progonomys, Rhabdomys, Rhagamys, Rhagapodemus, Rhagomys, Saccostomus, Saidomys, Spalacinae, Steatomys, Stephanomys, Tachyoryctoidinae, Thallomys, Thamnomys, Valerimys, Zelotomys
Subtaxa: Antemus Leopoldamys Leporillus Maxomys Melomys Mus Myomys Niviventer Otomyini Potwarmus Rattini Rattus Sundamys
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (25 collections), the Bahamas (1), Cayman Islands (1), China (11), Cook Islands (1), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Cyprus (1), the Czech Republic (2), Ecuador (4), France (19), Germany (6), Greece (35), Guam (2), Hungary (12), Indonesia (3), Israel (7), Italy (13), Japan (1), Kenya (4), Madagascar (4), the Marshall Islands (4), Monaco (1), Morocco (6), the Netherlands (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (30), Niue (7), Northern Mariana Islands (17), Palau (14), Panama (1), the Philippines (3), Portugal (1), Reunion (1), Romania (13), Saint Helena (2), South Africa (5), Spain (7), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (3), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (7), Vietnam (1), Yemen (2), Zambia (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Hungary (2), South Africa (2)
• Pliocene of Afghanistan (1), Australia (1), Austria (2), China (4), Ethiopia (2), Greece (1), Hungary (4), India (4), Japan (1), Morocco (2), South Africa (3), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Chad (1), China (4), Libya (2), Pakistan (9), Spain (2), Thailand (1)
Total: 340 collections including 454 occurrences