Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Belongs to Plesiosminthus according to M. Freudenthal and E. Martín-Suárez 2017
See also Werner 1994
Sister taxa: Plesiosminthus admyarion, Plesiosminthus asiaticus, Plesiosminthus barsboldi, Plesiosminthus bavaricus, Plesiosminthus conjunctus, Plesiosminthus fremdi, Plesiosminthus huangshuiensis, Plesiosminthus margaritae, Plesiosminthus meridionalis, Plesiosminthus moniqueae, Plesiosminthus moralesi, Plesiosminthus myarion, Plesiosminthus olzi, Plesiosminthus promyarion, Plesiosminthus tereskentensis, Plesiosminthus winistoerferi, Plesiosminthus xiningensis
Type specimen: Lyon collection no. 96325, a mandible. Its type locality is Coderet (MP 30), which is in a MP 30 terrestrial horizon in France.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of France (2 collections), Germany (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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