Parent taxon: Rodentia according to I. Bonilla-Salomón et al. 2016
See also Carroll 1988
Sister taxa: Alagomyidae, Allactagidae, Anomalomyidae, Anomaluroidea, Aplodontiidae, Aplodontoidea, Archetypomyidae, Callodontomys, Castorimorpha, Cavina, Cercolabidae, Conilurus, Cricetidae, Ctenohystrica, Cylindrodontidae, Dolosimus, Downsimys, Echinomyidae, Ectropomys, Entoptychidae, Epeiromys, Eryomyidae, Eryomyina, Homocentrus, Hystricognatha, Ischyromyidae, Ischyromyiformes, Ivanantonia, Megacricetodontidae, Muriformia, Mylagaulidae, Myodonta, Myomorpha, Pairomys, Paramyidae, Petauristidae, Pipestoneomyidae, Protrogomorpha, Pseudomys, Quercymys, Remyidae, Sciurognathi, Sciuroidea, Sciuromorpha, Siphneidae, Taeniodus, Theridomyoidea, Yuomyidae, Zamoramys, Zelomyidae
Subtaxa: Gliridae Seleviniidae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Czechia (2), France (13), Germany (9), Greece (16), Hungary (6), Israel (6), Italy (20), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Malta (1), Monaco (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Romania (8), South Africa (2), Spain (27), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (2), Zambia (1)
• MN 16 of France (1), Italy (3), Poland (1)
• Villafranchian of Greece (5), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Italy (4), South Africa (2), Spain (2)
• Pliocene of Armenia (2), China (2), France (4), Germany (3), Greece (7), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Moldova (1), Poland (3), South Africa (3), Spain (17), Türkiye (2)
• MN 13 of Greece (1), Spain (1)
• Turolian of Greece (4), Italy (2), Spain (14)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (4), China (4), France (32), Germany (25), Greece (14), Hungary (2), Italy (12), Morocco (2), Pakistan (2), Poland (4), Portugal (6), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (5), Slovakia (2), Spain (53), Switzerland (57), Türkiye (11)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1), Türkiye (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), China (5), Czechia (1), France (30), Germany (11), Greece (1), Serbia (1), Spain (28), Switzerland (4), Türkiye (10)
• Eocene of France (15), Spain (29), the United Kingdom (19)
Total: 625 collections including 1263 occurrences