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Rhizomys (greater bamboo rat)
Taxonomy
Rhizomys was named by Gray (1831). It is extant.
It was assigned to Rhizomyidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Rhizomyinae by Steppan et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Rhizomyidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Rhizomyinae by Steppan et al. (2004).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1831 | Rhizomys Gray |
| 1997 | Rhizomys McKenna and Bell |
| 2004 | Rhizomys Steppan et al. p. 539 |
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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.
G. Rhizomys Gray 1831 [greater bamboo rat]
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†Rhizomys troglodytes Matthew and Granger 1923
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Stein 2000, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the MN 5 to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 15.98000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| MN 5 | Türkiye (Bursa) | Rhizomys sp. (68547) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | Rhizomys brachyrhizomyoides (214689) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Rhizomys sp. (230325) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | China (Sichuan) | Rhizomys troglodytes (226365) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Jiangxi) | Rhizomys sp. (35923) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Yunnan) | Rhizomys sp. (36587) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Rhizomys sp. (38649 235739) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Hubei) | Rhizomys sp. (234753) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Rhizomys troglodytes (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Rhizomys sp. (51100) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Rhizomys sinensis, Rhizomys sp. (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Hunan) | Rhizomys sp. (36729 36730) |