Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Synonym: Conodontes Laugel 1862
Parent taxon: Castoridae according to N. Rybczynski 2007
See also Gervais 1869 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Agnotocastor, Agnotocastorinae, Anchitheriomyinae, Anchitheriomys, Asiacastor, Boreofiber, Capatanka, Castorinae, Castoroidinae, Chalicomys, Euroxenomys, Migmacastor, Neatocastor, Oligotheriomys, Palaeocastorinae, Palaeomys, Romanocastor, Trigontherium, Trogontheriinae, Youngofiber, Zamolxifiber
Subtaxa: Trogontherium cuvieri
Ecology: amphibious browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (9), Hungary (2), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1), Romania (8), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (8)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (1), Romania (11), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (2), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene of Hungary (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (2), Switzerland (2)
Total: 62 collections including 65 occurrences
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