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Cryptomys
Taxonomy
Cryptomys was named by Gray (1964). It is extant.
It was assigned to Bathyergidae by Honeycutt et al. (1987) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Bathyergidae by Honeycutt et al. (1987) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1964 | Cryptomys Gray |
1987 | Cryptomys Honeycutt et al. p. 280 |
1997 | Cryptomys McKenna and Bell |
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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. Cryptomys Gray 1964
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Cryptomys damarensis Ogilby 1838 [Damaraland mole rat]
Cryptomys hottentotus Lesson 1826 [common mole rat]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Samuels and Van Valkenburgh 2008, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (19 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Messinian - Piacenzian | South Africa (Cape) | C. sp. (59167) | |
Zanclean | South Africa | C. sp. (22221) | |
Pliocene | South Africa | C. hottentotus (22339 22341 22353) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa | C. robertsi, C. natalensis (22333 22334) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | South Africa | C. robertsi, C. sp. (21824) C. sp. (21827) | |
Pleistocene | South Africa | C. hottentotus (21915) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | C. hottentotus (21949) | |
Calabrian | South Africa | C. hottentotus (21961) | |
Middle Pleistocene | South Africa (Namaqualand) | C. sp. (51188) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Zambia | C. hottentotus (68340 68341) | |
Holocene | South Africa (N. Transraal) | C. hottentotus (21693) | |
Holocene | Zambia | C. lugardi (21894) | |
Holocene | South Africa | C. hottentotus (21862 21896) |