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Proheteromys

Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae

Taxonomy

Proheteromys was named by Wood (1932). It is not extant. Its type is Proheteromys floridanus.

It was assigned to Heteromyidae by Wood (1932) and McKenna and Bell (1997).

Species

P. bumpi, P. cejanus, P. floridanus (type species), P. gremmelsi, P. ironcloudi, P. matthewi, P. maximus, P. parvus, P. sabinensis, P. sulculus, P. thorpei, P. toledoensis

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Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1932	Proheteromys Wood
1997	Proheteromys McKenna and Bell

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Triploblastica
—	Nephrozoa
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
—	Sarcopterygii
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda	()
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
—	Batrachosauria	()
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Synapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Epicynodontia
infraorder	Eucynodontia
—	Probainognathia
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
infraclass	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Glires	()
order	Rodentia
superfamily	Geomyoidea	Bonaparte 1845
family	Heteromyidae	Gray 1868
genus	Proheteromys

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.

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available