Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Parent taxon: Ctenodactylidae according to Q. Li and J. Meng 2015
See also McKenna and Bell 1997, Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 and Wessels et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Africanomys, Confiniummys, Ctenodactylinae, Ctenodactylus, Dubiomys, Huangomys, Irhoudia, Leptotataromys, Massoutiera, Metasayimys, Ottomania, Pectinator, Prosayimys, Protataromys, Tataromyinae, Testouromys, Woodomys, Yindirtemyinae
Subtaxa: Sayimys perplexus Sayimys sihongensis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (4 collections), Greece (2), India (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (5), Mongolia (1), Pakistan (18)
• Oligocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 34 collections including 36 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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