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Cricetomyinae
Taxonomy
Cricetomyidae was named as a family. It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Cricetomyinae by Steppan et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Nesomyidae by Steppan et al. (2004).
It was reranked as the subfamily Cricetomyinae by Steppan et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Nesomyidae by Steppan et al. (2004).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Cricetomyinae 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. Cricetomyinae
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G. Beamys Thomas 1909
G. Cricetomys Waterhouse 1840 [giant pouched rat]
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Cricetomys emini Wroughton 1910 [Emin's pouched rat]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene - Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Cricetomys sp. (22074) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | Cricetomys sp. (22272) | |
| Holocene | Cote D'Ivoire | Cricetomys gambianus (21692) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Cricetomys sp. (22073) |