†Neocometes Schaub and Zapfe 1953 (mouse)
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Parent taxon: Platacanthomyidae according to P. Mein and L. Ginsburg 1997
See also de Bruijn and Moltzer 1974, Kowalski 1993 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Platacanthomys, Typhlomys
Subtaxa: Neocometes orientalis Neocometes similis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (2 collections), France (1), Germany (4), Poland (2), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (4), Thailand (1)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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