Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Full reference: W. D. Matthew and W. Granger. 1923. Nine new rodents from the Oligocene of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 102:1-10
Parent taxon: Tataromyinae according to M. Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
See also Li and Meng 2015, Li and Qiu 1980, Matthew and Granger 1923, McKenna and Bell 1997, Qiu et al. 1981, Tong 1997 and Wang and Qiu 2004
Sister taxa: Alashania, Karakoromys
Subtaxa: Tataromys deflexus Tataromys minor Tataromys plicidens Tataromys sigmodon
Type: Tataromys plicidens
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (2 collections), Mongolia (1)
• Oligocene of China (17), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (11)
Total: 33 collections including 60 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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