Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parent taxon: Dipodoidea according to C. Montgelard et al. 2002
See also Carroll 1988, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Hay 1902, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999 and Wood 1958
Sister taxa: Simimyidae, Sminthidae, Zapodidae
Subtaxa: Allactaga Allosminthus Bohlinosminthus Brachyscirtetes Dipus Heosminthus Jaculus Litodonomys Lophocricetinae Lophocricetus Onjosminthus Paralactaga Parasminthus Proalactaga Protalactaga Pygeretmus Salpingotus Sinosminthus Sinozapus Sminthoides Stylodipus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Ethiopia (3), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (1), Mongolia (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tanzania (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1)
• Villafranchian of China (7)
• Pliocene of China (3), Mongolia (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
• Turolian of China (1)
• Miocene of China (13), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (1), Mongolia (15), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Türkiye (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Mongolia (3), Türkiye (1)
• Oligocene of China (20), Czechia (1), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (67), Pakistan (1), Serbia (5), Türkiye (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Türkiye (1)
• Eocene of China (5), Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 176 collections including 395 occurrences