Parent taxon: Rodentia according to C. Montgelard et al. 2002
See also Carroll 1988, Sallam et al. 2010 and Sallam et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Alagomyidae, Allactagidae, Allomyidae, Anomalomyidae, Aplodontoidea, Archetypomyidae, Callodontomys, Castorimorpha, Cavina, Cercolabidae, Conilurus, Cricetidae, Ctenohystrica, Cylindrodontidae, Dolosimus, Downsimys, Echinomyidae, Ectropomys, Entoptychidae, Epeiromys, Eryomyidae, Eryomyina, Florentiamyidae, Gliroidea, 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: Anomaluridae Nementchamyidae Nonanomaluridae Pedetidae Zegdoumyidae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (3 collections), South Africa (4), Tanzania (2)
• Pliocene of Tanzania (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1)
• Miocene of Kenya (11), Namibia (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Uganda (5)
• Oligocene of Kenya (2), Libya (1), Morocco (2), Oman (2)
• Eocene of Algeria (7), Egypt (1), Libya (1), Myanmar (3), Namibia (1), Tunisia (1)
Total: 52 collections including 76 occurrences