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Bathyergus (dune mole rat)
Taxonomy
Bathyergus was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant. It is the type genus of Bathyergidae.
It was assigned to Murina by Illiger (1811); to Aspalacina by Gray (1825); and to Bathyergidae by Honeycutt et al. (1987), Pickford and Senut (1997).
It was assigned to Murina by Illiger (1811); to Aspalacina by Gray (1825); and to Bathyergidae by Honeycutt et al. (1987), Pickford and Senut (1997).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1811 | Bathyergus Illiger p. 86 |
| 1825 | Bathyergus Gray p. 342 |
| 1987 | Bathyergus Honeycutt et al. p. 280 |
| 1997 | Bathyergus Pickford and Senut p. 201 |
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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. Bathyergus Illiger 1811 [dune mole rat]
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Bathyergus janetta Thomas and Schwann 1904 [Namaqua dune mole rat]
Bathyergus suillus Schreber 1787 [Cape dune mole rat]
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Invalid names: Mus maritimus Gmelin 1788 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (18 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messinian - Piacenzian | South Africa (Cape) | Bathyergus sp. (59167) | |
| Zanclean | South Africa | Bathyergus sp. (22221 22222) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | Bathyergus suillus (21695 21929 21931 21953 115191 115205) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Bathyergus suillus (21711 21951 21952) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa (Namaqualand) | Bathyergus sp. (51187) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | South Africa | Bathyergus suillus (115167) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | Bathyergus janetta (115184) Bathyergus suillus (115225) Bathyergus suilus (21709) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Bathyergus suillus (21922) |