Family Gliridae Muirhead 1819 (dormouse)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae

Parent taxon: Gliroidea according to I. Bonilla-Salomón et al. 2016

See also Becker et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Montgelard et al. 2002, Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014 and Wood 1958

Sister taxon: Seleviniidae

Subtaxa: Armantomys Bransatoglirinae Dryomyinae Gliravinae Glirinae Glirurus Graphiurops Graphiurus Leithia Leithiinae Mioglis Myomiminae Myomimus Paraglirulus Paraglis Peridyromys Plesiodyromys Praearmantomys Schizogliravus Stertomys Suevoglis Tenuiglis

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Czechia (2), France (13), Germany (8), Greece (16), Hungary (9), Israel (6), Italy (20), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Malta (1), Monaco (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (9), South Africa (2), Spain (27), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (2), Zambia (1)

• Villafranchian of Greece (5), Hungary (3), Italy (1), Spain (4)

• MN 16 of France (1), Italy (3), Poland (1)

• 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 (4), South Africa (3), Spain (17), Türkiye (2)

• MN 13 of Greece (1), Portugal (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 (5), 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 (9), Greece (1), Serbia (1), Spain (28), Switzerland (4), Türkiye (10)

• Eocene of France (15), Spain (29), the United Kingdom (19)

Total: 626 collections including 1281 occurrences

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