Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Parent taxon: Arvicolinae according to T. Galewski et al. 2006
See also Albright et al. 2019 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Allophaiomys, Atopomys, Dicrostonychini, Dinaromys, Lasiopodomys, Lemmini, Mimomys, Myodini, Ondatrinae, Ondatrini, Orcemys, Phenacomyini, Praesynaptomys, Prolagurus, Prometheomyini, Synaptomyini
Subtaxa: Arvicola Chionomys Microtus Villanyia
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), Canada (17: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (2), Czechia (6), France (25), Germany (21), Greece (20), Hungary (18), Israel (7), Italy (65), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Malta (1), Mexico (5), Monaco (1), the Netherlands (3), Norway (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Romania (11), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (26), Syria (1), Taiwan (1), Tajikistan (2), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (13), United States (268: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Villafranchian of Hungary (1), Italy (1)
• MN 16 of Poland (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of Kazakhstan (4), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 551 collections including 1036 occurrences