Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Alternative spelling: Alactaga
Parent taxon: Dipodidae according to Z. B. Mirza 1965
See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Nesin and Kovalchuk 2017
Sister taxa: Allosminthus, Bohlinosminthus, Brachyscirtetes, Dipus, Heosminthus, Jaculus, Litodonomys, Lophocricetinae, Lophocricetus, Onjosminthus, Paralactaga, Parasminthus, Proalactaga, Protalactaga, Pygeretmus, Salpingotus, Sinosminthus, Sinozapus, Sminthoides, Stylodipus
Subtaxa: Allactaga fru Mus longipes
Ecology: saltatorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
• Pliocene of Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
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