PBDB Taxon

Basic info	Taxonomic history	Classification	Included Taxa
Morphology	Ecology and taphonomy	External Literature Search	Age range and collections

Apodemus atavus

Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Muridae

Taxonomy

No taxonomic data are available

Sister species

A. agrarius, A. gudrunae, A. lii, A. mystacinus

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

A. alsomyoides, A. argenteus, A. coronensis, A. dominans, A. draco, A. flavicollis, A. gorafensis, A. jeanteti, A. leptodus, A. levantinus, A. maastrichtiensis, A. mannu, A. maximus, A. peninsulae, A. sibiricus, A. speciosus, A. stavus, A. uralensis

Synonymy list

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Simplicidentata	()
order	Rodentia	Bowdich 1821
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
—	Eumuroida
family	Muridae	Illiger 1811
genus	Apodemus	Kaup 1829
species	atavus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Gelasian or 7.24600 to 1.80000 Ma

Collections (16 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Italy (Piedmont)	Apodemus atavus (172910 172912 172914 172915 172916 199859 199860)
Ruscinian	5.09 - 3.55	Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz)	Apodemus atavus (43633)
Ruscinian	5.09 - 3.55	Greece (Kozani)	Apodemus atavus (205081 205083 205084 205086 205088)
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.58	Spain	Apodemus atavus (193557)
Gelasian	2.58 - 1.8	Spain (Granada)	Apodemus atavus (77773)
Early/Lower Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.774	Italy (Verona)	Apodemus atavus (51625)