Parent taxon: Myodonta according to C. Montgelard et al. 2002
See also Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999 and Wood 1958
Sister taxa: Erlianomys, Muroidea, Nonomyinae
Subtaxa: Dipodidae Simimyidae Sminthidae Zapodidae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Canada (1: Quebec), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ethiopia (3), France (1), Germany (4), Greece (6), Hungary (18), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (1), Mongolia (1), Romania (12), the Russian Federation (1), Tanzania (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (37: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (8: Kansas, Nebraska)
• Pliocene of China (11), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Mongolia (1), Poland (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (5: Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Canada (3: Saskatchewan), China (16), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (1), Mongolia (16), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), United States (69: California, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (4: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (5: Montana, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Mongolia (3), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (25), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (4), Mongolia (70), Pakistan (1), Serbia and Montenegro (6), Spain (7), Switzerland (1), Turkey (2), United States (4: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of China (1), Turkey (1)
• Eocene of China (5), Kazakhstan (5), United States (41: California, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas, Utah)
Total: 444 collections including 766 occurrences