Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Alternative spelling: Microdryomys
Synonym: Myolidus Alvarez Sierra 1986
Parent taxon: Dryomyinae according to K. Vasileiadou and G. D. Koufos 2005
See also Daams and de Bruijn 1995, Kowalski 1997, Lalaï 1986, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Pickford et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Chaetocauda, Dryomys, Eivissia, Eliomys, Gliruloides, Hypnomys, Maltamys, Tyrrhenoglis
Subtaxa: Microdyromys complicatus Microdyromys hildebrandti Microdyromys koenigswaldi Microdyromys legidensis Microdyromys monspeliensis Microdyromys orientalis Microdyromys praemurinus Microdyromys sinuosus
Type: Microdyromys koenigswaldi
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Algeria (1 collection), Austria (2), China (3), France (16), Germany (15), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Morocco (2), Poland (2), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (8), Switzerland (24), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), France (9), Germany (5), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 103 collections including 116 occurrences
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