Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Castoroidea according to C. Montgelard et al. 2002
See also Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Eshelman et al. 2018, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gray 1821, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Johnson 1966, Korth 2007, Korth and Bailey 2006, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lambe 1908, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Shoshani et al. 1989 and Wood 1958
Sister taxon: Eutypomyidae
Subtaxa: Agnotocastor Agnotocastorinae Anchitheriomyinae Anchitheriomys Asiacastor Boreofiber Capatanka Castorinae Castoroidinae Chalicomys Euroxenomys Migmacastor Neatocastor Oligotheriomys Palaeocastorinae Palaeomys Romanocastor Trigontherium Trogontheriinae Trogontherium Youngofiber Zamolxifiber
Ecology: amphibious browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (15: Alberta, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon collections), China (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (3), Germany (13), Greece (7), Hungary (3), Italy (4), the Netherlands (4), North Atlantic (1), Poland (1), Romania (9), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (1), Spain (6), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (202: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (55: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Pliocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (6), France (2), Germany (1), Greece (8), Hungary (1), Italy (3), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (1), Poland (1), Romania (15), the Russian Federation (5), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Idaho)
• Hemphillian of Canada (1: Alberta), United States (42: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (9: Saskatchewan), China (18), France (29), Germany (8), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (3), Poland (3), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (17), Switzerland (6), Turkey (5), Ukraine (1), United States (165: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (19: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (38: Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Canada (3: Saskatchewan), China (3), France (1), Germany (3), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (13), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), United States (99: Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Nebraska, Wyoming)
Total: 914 collections including 1087 occurrences