Family Dipodidae Waterhouse 1842 (rodent)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae

Parent taxon: Dipodoidea according to C. Montgelard et al. 2002

See also Carroll 1988, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Hay 1902, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999 and Wood 1958

Sister taxa: Simimyidae, Zapodidae

Subtaxa: Alactaga Allactaga Allosminthus Bohlinosminthus Brachyscirtetes Dipus Heosminthus Jaculus Litodonomys Lophocricetinae Lophocricetus Onjosminthus Paralactaga Parasminthus Proalactaga Protalactaga Pygeretmus Salpingotus Sinosminthus Sinozapus Sminthoides Stylodipus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Ethiopia (3), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (1), Mongolia (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tanzania (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1)

• Pliocene of China (10), Mongolia (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)

• Miocene of China (13), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (1), Mongolia (15), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Turkey (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Mongolia (3), Turkey (1)

• Oligocene of China (20), the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (67), Pakistan (1), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Turkey (2)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Turkey (1)

• Eocene of China (5), Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 177 collections including 396 occurrences

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