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Superfamily Anomaluroidea Gervais 1849 (rodent)

Mammalia - Rodentia

Parent taxon: Rodentia according to C. Montgelard et al. 2002

See also Carroll 1988, Sallam et al. 2010 and Sallam et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Alagomyidae, Allactagidae, Allomyidae, Anomalomyidae, Aplodontoidea, Archetypomyidae, Callodontomys, Castorimorpha, Cavina, Cercolabidae, Conilurus, Cricetidae, Ctenohystrica, Cylindrodontidae, Dolosimus, Downsimys, Echinomyidae, Ectropomys, Entoptychidae, Epeiromys, Eryomyidae, Eryomyina, Florentiamyidae, Gliroidea, Homocentrus, Hystricognatha, Ischyromyidae, Ischyromyiformes, Ivanantonia, Megacricetodontidae, Muriformia, Mylagaulidae, Myodonta, Myomorpha, Pairomys, Paramyidae, Petauristidae, Pipestoneomyidae, Protrogomorpha, Pseudomys, Quercymys, Remyidae, Sciurognathi, Sciuroidea, Sciuromorpha, Siphneidae, Taeniodus, Theridomyoidea, Yuomyidae, Zamoramys, Zelomyidae

Subtaxa: Anomaluridae Nementchamyidae Nonanomaluridae Pedetidae Zegdoumyidae

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Kenya (3 collections), South Africa (4), Tanzania (2)

• Pliocene of Tanzania (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1)

• Miocene of Kenya (11), Namibia (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Uganda (5)

• Oligocene of Kenya (2), Libya (1), Morocco (2), Oman (2)

• Eocene of Algeria (7), Egypt (1), Libya (1), Myanmar (3), Namibia (1), Tunisia (1)

Total: 52 collections including 76 occurrences

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