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Platacanthomyinae
Taxonomy
Platacanthomyidae was named by Alston (1876) [includes Neocometes
originally entered as a subfamily]. It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Platacanthomyinae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971), McKenna and Bell (1997), Steppan et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Cricetidae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971); to Muridae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Muroidea by Steppan et al. (2004).
It was reranked as the subfamily Platacanthomyinae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971), McKenna and Bell (1997), Steppan et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Cricetidae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971); to Muridae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Muroidea by Steppan et al. (2004).
Subtaxa
Entered
by E. Leckey (authorized by J. Alroy) on 2003-05-05; modified by L. van den Hoek Ostende on 2013-04-30
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Platacanthomyinae Mein and Freudenthal p. 9 |
| 1997 | Platacanthomyinae McKenna and Bell p. 172 |
| 2004 | Platacanthomyinae Steppan et al. p. 547 |
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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. Platacanthomyinae Alston 1876
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G. †Neocometes Schaub and Zapfe 1953
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†Neocometes orientalis Mein 1990
†Neocometes similis Fahlbusch 1966
G. Platacanthomys Blyth 1859
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†Platacanthomys dianensis Qiu 1989
Platacanthomys lasiurus Blyth 1859 [malabar spiny dormouse]
G. Typhlomys Milne-Edwards 1877 [Chinese pygmy dormouse]
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Typhlomys chapensis Osgood 1932
Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards 1877
Typhlomys daloushanensis Cheng et al. 2017
†Typhlomys hipparionum Qiu 1989
Typhlomys nanus Cheng et al. 2017
†Typhlomys storchi Qiu and Ni 2019
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MN 3 to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 20.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 16.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 16.9 Ma
Collections (29 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene | South Korea (Gangwon-do) | Neocometes similis (137129) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Thailand | Neocometes orientalis (48126) | |
| MN 3 | Spain (Aragon) | Neocometes similis (68041) | |
| MN 4 | Poland | Neocometes similis (31041) | |
| MN 4 | France (Gers) | Neocometes sp. (69099) | |
| Shanwangian | China (Jiangsu) | Neocometes sp. (235566) | |
| MN 5 | Germany (Bayern) | Neocometes similis (44972 44974) | |
| MN 5 | Switzerland (Sankt Gallen) | Neocometes similis (46285) | |
| MN 5 | Germany | Neocometes similis (46955) | |
| MN 5 | Germany (Bavaria) | Neocometes similis (49418) | |
| MN 5 | Switzerland (Zürich) | Neocometes similis (46225 46286) | |
| MN 5 - MN 6 | Poland | Neocometes similis (31040) | |
| Serravallian | Slovakia (Bratislava) | Neocometes brunonis (58983) | |
| MN 7 + 8 | Switzerland (Baselland) | Neocometes brunonis (49421) | |
| Tortonian | China (Yunnan) | Platacanthomys sp., Typhlomys sp. (11798) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | China (Yunnan) | Neocometes sp., Typhlomys primitivus, Platacanthomys dianensis, Typhlomys hipparionum, Typhlomys storchi (235588) Typhlomys primitivus, Platacanthomys dianensis (235586) Typhlomys primitivus, Platacanthomys dianensis, Typhlomys hipparionum (235587) Typhlomys primitivus, Platacanthomys dianensis, Typhlomys hipparionum, Typhlomys storchi (235589) | |
| Turolian | China (Yunnan) | Platacanthomys sp., Typhlomys sp. (44219 44220 44223 44224) | |
| MN 12 - MN 13 | China (Shaanxi) | Typhlomys sp. (78328) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | Typhlomys intermedius, Typhlomys cinereus (214689) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Anhui) | Typhlomys intermedius (68380) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Typhlomys cinereus (235737) |