Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Alternative spelling: Zapodinae
Parent taxon: Dipodoidea according to R. L. Carroll 1988
See also Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Wood 1958
Sister taxa: Dipodidae, Simimyidae
Subtaxa: Aksyiromys Banyuesminthus Elymys Eozapus Gobiosminthus Javazapus Macrognathomys Megasminthus Miosicista Napaeozapus Pliozapus Primisminthus Schaubeumys Shamosminthus Sicista Sicistinae Simiacritomys Sminthozapus Tyrannomys Zapus
Type: Zapus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Canada (1: Quebec), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (4), Greece (5), Hungary (17), Romania (11), United States (37: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (8: Kansas, Nebraska)
• Pliocene of China (3), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (5: Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Canada (3: Saskatchewan), China (4), Germany (2), Mongolia (9), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), United States (69: California, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (4: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (5: Montana, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Mongolia (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (13), France (4), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (29), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (7), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), United States (4: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of China (1)
• Eocene of China (2), Kazakhstan (4), United States (2: California, Nevada)
Total: 281 collections including 329 occurrences