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Taxonomy
Protophiomys was named by Jaegar et al. (1985). Its type is Protophiomys algeriensis.
It was assigned to Theridomyidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phiomyidae by Jaegar et al. (1985), Pickford et al. (2008), Jaeger et al. (2010); and to Protophiomyinae by Coster et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Theridomyidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phiomyidae by Jaegar et al. (1985), Pickford et al. (2008), Jaeger et al. (2010); and to Protophiomyinae by Coster et al. (2012).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1985 | Protophiomys Jaegar et al. |
| 1997 | Protophiomys McKenna and Bell |
| 2008 | Protophiomys Pickford et al. p. 491 |
| 2009 | Waslamys Sallam et al. |
| 2010 | Protophiomys Jaeger et al. |
| 2012 | Protophiomys Coster et al. |
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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. †Protophiomys Jaegar et al. 1985
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†Protophiomys aegyptensis Sallam et al. 2009
†Protophiomys algeriensis Jaegar et al. 1985
†Protophiomys attiai Sallam et al. 2009
†Protophiomys durattalahensis Jaeger et al. 2010
†Protophiomys tunisiensis Marivaux et al. 2014
Invalid names: Waslamys Sallam et al. 2009 [synonym]
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: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 41.03000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | Libya (Sirt) | P. durattalahensis (175361 175362) | |
| Bartonian | Tunisia (Sidi Bouzid Township) | P. tunisiensis (173640) | |
| Bartonian | Namibia (Sperrgebiet) | P. algeriensis (65159 114539 165176) | |
| Bartonian - Priabonian | Algeria | P. algeriensis (59733) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt | P. aegyptensis, Waslamys attiai (67706) |