Copemys Wood 1936 (rodent)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Synonyms: Democricetodon Fahlbusch 1964, Miochomys Hoffmeister 1959, Tregomys Wilson 1968

Full reference: A. E. Wood. 1936. The cricetid rodents described by Leidy and Cope from the Tertiary of North America. American Museum Novitates 822

Parent taxon: Cricetidae according to R. L. Wilson 1968

See also Baskin 1978, Engesser 1979, Fahlbusch 1964, Lalaï 1986, Lindsay 1972, Lindsay 2017, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mein and Freudenthal 1971, Pickford et al. 2000, Sutton and Korth 1995, Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005, Voorhies 1990 and Wood 1936

Sister taxa: Abelmoschomys, Aktaumys, Allocricetus, Allospalax, Alticola, Anatolomys, Andinomys, Antecalomys, Aralocricetodon, Aratomys, Argyromys, Arvicolinae, Baiomys, Baranomys, Basirepomys, Bensonomys, Blancomys, Chardinomys, Chinchillula, Cimarronomys, Cricetinae, Cricetodontinae, Cricetopinae, Democricetodontinae, Desmodillus, Dolomys, Ellobius, Eocricetodon, Eoeumys, Eolagurus, Eucricetodontinae, Eumyarioninae, Eumys, Galushamys, Ganocricetodon, Geringia, Germanomys, Gnomomys, Goniodontomys, Guildayomys, Hesperomyini, Hibbardomys, Hodomys, Ischymomys, Isthmomys, Jacobsomys, Kanisamys, Kislangia, Lagurodon, Lagurus, Lartetomys, Laugaritiomys, Leakeymys, Leidymys, Lemmiscus, Leukaristomys, Loupomys, Melissiodontinae, Microcricetus, Microtinae, Microtocricetus, Microtodon, Microtoscoptes, Mictomys, Mirrabella, Myocricetodon, Nannocricetus, Nelsonia, Neofiber, Neotoma, Neotominae, Neotomini, Ochrotomys, Ogmodontomys, Onychomys, Paciculus, Palasiomys, Pappocricetodontinae, Paracricetodontinae, Paracricetulus, Paramicrotoscoptes, Paratarsomys, Paronychomys, Peromyscus, Plesiocricetodon, Plioctomys, Pliolemmus, Pliomys, Pliotomodon, Poamys, Podomys, Postcopemys, Primoprismus, Primus, Promimomys, Propliomys, Prosomys, Prospalax, Protatera, Prototomys, Pseudocricetodontinae, Pseudocricetops, Pseudomyscus, Pterospalax, Punomys, Raricricetodontinae, Reithrodontomys, Repomys, Rhinocricetus, Rhizospalax, Scottimus, Sigmodontinae, Sigmodontini, Sinocricetus, Stachomys, Synaptomys, Trilophomys, Tylomyinae, Ungaromys, Vallaris, Willeumys, Wilsoneumys, Yatkolamys, Zhungaromys, Zramys, Zygodontomys, Notocricetodon

Subtaxa: Copemys barstowensis Copemys esmeraldensis Copemys lindsayi Copemys longidens Copemys loxodon Copemys pagei Copemys pisinnus Copemys russelli Copemys shotwelli Copemys tenuis Democricetodon affinis Democricetodon brevis Democricetodon crassus Democricetodon fejfari Democricetodon franconicus Democricetodon freisingensis Democricetodon gaillardi Democricetodon haltmari Democricetodon hispanicus Democricetodon kaonou Democricetodon khani Democricetodon minor Democricetodon mutilus Democricetodon romieviensis Democricetodon similis Democricetodon sulcatus Democricetodon vindoboniensis

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Blancan of United States (1: California collection)

• Pliocene of Poland (1), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Hemphillian of United States (15: Arizona, California, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Washington)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of Canada (2: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (9), France (21), Germany (43), Greece (7), Hungary (2), India (1), Mongolia (2), Pakistan (17), Poland (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Slovakia (2), South Korea (1), Spain (18), Switzerland (27), Thailand (1), Turkey (7), United States (97: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Pakistan (1)

Total: 288 collections including 423 occurrences

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