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Rhizomyinae
Taxonomy
Rhizomyidae was named by Miller and Gidley (1918). It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Rhizomyinae by Steppan et al. (2004), Wilson and Reeder (2005).
It was assigned to Spalacoidea by Wood (1958), Carroll (1988); and to Spalacidae by Steppan et al. (2004), Wilson and Reeder (2005).
It was reranked as the subfamily Rhizomyinae by Steppan et al. (2004), Wilson and Reeder (2005).
It was assigned to Spalacoidea by Wood (1958), Carroll (1988); and to Spalacidae by Steppan et al. (2004), Wilson and Reeder (2005).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1918 | Rhizomyidae Miller and Gidley |
| 1958 | Rhizomyidae Wood p. 172 |
| 1988 | Rhizomyidae Carroll |
| 2004 | Rhizomyinae Steppan et al. p. 547 |
| 2005 | Rhizomyinae Wilson and Reeder |
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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.
Subfm. Rhizomyinae Miller and Gidley 1918
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G. †Brachyrhizomys Teilhard de Jardin 1942
G. †Pararhizomys Teilhard de Jardin and Young 1931
G. †Rhizomyoides Black 1972
Tr. Tachyoryctini
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G. Tachyoryctes Rüppell 1835
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Tachyoryctes macrocephalus Rüppell 1842 [Ethiopian african mole rat]
Tachyoryctes splendens Rüppell 1835 [Northeast african mole rat]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Aquitanian to the top of the Holocene or 23.04000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 20.45 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 20.45 Ma
Collections (71 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | Prokanisamys kowalskii (179934) Prokanisamys sp., Prokanisamys kowalskii (179935) | |
| Aquitanian | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | Prokanisamys kowalskii (179933) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Libya | Prokanisamys sp. (77026 77028 77029) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | Prokanisamys arifi (180608) Rhizomyinae indet., Prokanisamys sp., Prokanisamys kowalskii (180602) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | China (Jiangsu) | Rhizomyidae indet. (13482) | |
| Miocene | Pakistan (Sindh) | Prokanisamys arifi (176052 176055 176056) Prokanisamys arifi, Prokanisamys major (176051 176053 176054) Prokanisamys major (176046 176047 176048 176050) Prokanisamys major, Prokanisamys sp. (176045) Rhizomyidae indet., Prokanisamys arifi (176049) Rhizomyidae indet., Prokanisamys arifi, Prokanisamys sp. (176057) | |
| Burdigalian | China (Jiangsu) | Rhizomyidae indet. (42067 43400) | |
| Burdigalian - Serravallian | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | Prokanisamys major, Prokanisamys sp., Prokanisamys arifi (180629) Prokanisamys sp., Prokanisamys arifi (180613) Rhizomyinae indet., Prokanisamys major, Prokanisamys sp., Prokanisamys arifi (180619) | |
| MN 5 | Türkiye (Bursa) | Rhizomys sp. (68547) | |
| Middle Miocene | Nepal | Rhizomyidae indet. (48667) | |
| Vallesian | China (Xizang Zizhiqu) | Brachyrhizomys hehoensis (42259) | |
| Tortonian | China (Yunnan) | Rhizomyidae indet., Brachyrhizomys nagrii, Brachyrhizomys pilgrimi, Brachyrhizomys tetracharax (11798) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Rhizomyoides sivalensis (13060) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Chad | Tachyoryctini indet. (24181) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | Ethiopia | Tachyoryctes sp. (22139) | |
| Turolian | China (Yunnan) | Brachyrhizomys nagrii, Brachyrhizomys tetracharax (44222) Brachyrhizomys pilgrimi, Brachyrhizomys tetracharax (44221 44223) Brachyrhizomys tetracharax (44219 44220 44224) | |
| Zanclean | Ethiopia | Tachyoryctes sp. (22160) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | India | Brachyrhizomys sp. (70523) | |
| Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Tachyoryctes pliocaenicus (21762 21765 21782 21784 21786) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Anhui) | Brachyrhizomys shansius (68380) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Rhizomys sp. (230325) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | Rhizomys brachyrhizomyoides (214689) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | China (Sichuan) | Rhizomys troglodytes (226365) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Jiangxi) | Rhizomys sp. (35923) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Yunnan) | Rhizomys sp. (36587) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Cannomys badius (237787) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Rhizomys sp. (51100) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Rhizomys troglodytes (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Rhizomys sp. (38649 235739) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Hubei) | Rhizomys sp. (234753) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Thailand | Cannomys badius (176213) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti Plain) | Tachyoryctes splendens (32093) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Rhizomys sinensis, Rhizomys sp. (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Hunan) | Rhizomys sp. (36729 36730) | |
| Holocene | Kenya | Tachyoryctes sp. (21939) Tachyoryctes splendens (21932 21933 21934 21936 21938 21959) |