Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Full reference: W. D. Matthew and W. Granger. 1925. New Creodonts and Rodents from the Ardyn Obo Formation of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 193:1-7
Parent taxon: Cylindrodontidae according to B.-Y. Wang and P.-Y. Wang 1991
See also Matthew and Granger 1925 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Anomoemys, Cylindrodon, Dawsonomys, Gobiocylindrodon, Jaywilsonomys, Orientocylindrodon, Pareumys, Proardynomys, Pseudocylindrodon, Sespemys, Siouxlindrodon, Tuscahomys
Subtaxa: Ardynomys chihi Ardynomys glambus Ardynomys occidentalis Ardynomys olseni Ardynomys saskatchewaensis
Type: Ardynomys olseni
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of China (2 collections), Mongolia (4)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (3), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (3), United States (6: Montana, North Dakota, Texas)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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