Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Synonym: Amphidyromys Heller 1936
Parent taxon: Glirinae according to K. Kowalski 1997
See also Daams and de Bruijn 1995 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Glirudinus, Heissigia, Heteromyoxus, Muscardinus, Myoglis, Seorsumuscardinus
Subtaxa: Amphidyromys pusillus Glirulus conjunctus Glirulus diremptus Glirulus ekremi Glirulus gemmula Glirulus japonicus Glirulus lissiensis Glirulus minor Glirulus miocaenicus Glirulus werenfelsi
Type: Glirulus japonicus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), Romania (1)
• MN 16 of Italy (1)
• Villafranchian of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (3), Poland (1)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Germany (2), Greece (4), Hungary (1), Italy (4), Poland (3), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Switzerland (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Turkey (2)
Total: 37 collections including 45 occurrences
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