Parent taxon: Rodentia according to I. Bonilla-Salomón et al. 2016
See also Carroll 1988
Sister taxa: Alagomyidae, Allactagidae, Allomyidae, Anomalomyidae, Anomaluroidea, Aplodontoidea, Archetypomyidae, Callodontomys, Castorimorpha, Cavina, Cercolabidae, Conilurus, Cricetidae, Ctenohystrica, Cylindrodontidae, Dolosimus, Downsimys, Echinomyidae, Ectropomys, Entoptychidae, Epeiromys, Eryomyidae, Eryomyina, Florentiamyidae, Homocentrus, Hystricognatha, Ischyromyidae, Ischyromyiformes, Ivanantonia, Megacricetodontidae, Muriformia, Mylagaulidae, Myodonta, Myomorpha, Pairomys, Paramyidae, Petauristidae, Pipestoneomyidae, Protrogomorpha, Pseudomys, Quercymys, Remyidae, Sciurognathi, Sciuroidea, Sciuromorpha, Siphneidae, Taeniodus, Theridomyoidea, Yuomyidae, Zamoramys, Zelomyidae
Subtaxa: Gliridae Seleviniidae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), Cote D'Ivoire (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (13), Germany (8), Greece (16), Hungary (9), Israel (6), Italy (19), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Malta (1), Monaco (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (9), South Africa (2), Spain (26), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Italy (4), South Africa (2), Spain (2)
• Pliocene of China (2), France (5), Germany (3), Greece (12), Hungary (4), Italy (5), Moldova (1), Poland (5), Slovakia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (21), Turkey (2)
• MN 13 of Greece (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (4), China (4), France (32), Germany (25), Greece (17), Hungary (2), Italy (14), Morocco (2), Pakistan (2), Poland (4), Portugal (5), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Slovakia (2), Spain (67), Switzerland (57), Turkey (11)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), China (5), the Czech Republic (1), France (30), Germany (9), Greece (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (28), Switzerland (4), Turkey (10)
• Eocene of France (15), Spain (29), the United Kingdom (19)
Total: 623 collections including 1278 occurrences