Mammalia - Cimolesta - Apatemyidae
Alternative spelling: Apatemydidae
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1909. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
Parent taxon: Apatotheria according to N. J. Czaplewski and G. S. Morgan 2015
See also Carroll 1988, EstravĂs 1990, Gunnell 1988, Gunnell 1989, Hay 1930, Hooker 1986, Johnson 1966, Korth et al. 2022, Matthew 1917, McKenna and Bell 1997, Silcox et al. 2010, Simpson 1940, Van Valen 1967 and von Koenigswald et al. 2009
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Apatemyinae Apatemys Carcinella Eochiromys Frugivastodon Heterohyus Jepsenella Labidolemur Russellmyinae Russellmys Sinclairella Stehlinella Teilhardella Unuchinia Unuchiniinae
Ecology: arboreal herbivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (1: Oregon collection)
• Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado, Florida, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Nebraska)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Canada (3: Saskatchewan), France (18), Germany (1), India (1), Portugal (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (5), United States (125: California, Colorado, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (10: Montana, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (6: Alberta, Saskatchewan), United States (21: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 205 collections including 242 occurrences