Aplodontiidae
Temporal range: Oligocene to present
Mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Sciuromorpha
Infraorder: Protrogomorpha
Family: Aplodontiidae
Brandt, 1855
Genera

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The family Aplodontiidae also known as Aplodontidae, Haplodontiidae or Haploodontini is traditionally classified as the sole extant family of the suborder Protrogomorpha. It may be the sister family of the Sciuridae.[1] There are fossils from the Oligocene until Miocene in Asia, from Oligocene in Europe and from the Oligocene until the present in North America, where there is the only living species: the mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).[2]

Systematics

It includes the following genera:

References

  1. ^ Wilson and Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Vol. 1 (3 ed.). JHU Press. p. 753. ISBN 9780801882210.
  2. ^ a b c Vianey-Liaud, Monique; Gomes Rodrigues, Helder; Marivaux, Laurent (2013). "Early adaptive radiations of Aplodontoidea (Rodentia, Mammalia) on the Holarctic region: systematics, and phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 87 (1): 83–120. doi:10.1007/s12542-012-0143-3. S2CID 83608779.
  3. ^ A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1999. Paludicola 2(3):257.
  4. ^ Korth, William W. (2009). "Mammals from the Blue Ash local fauna (late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia, Part 4: Family Aplodontidae". Paludicola. 7 (3): 89–106.
  5. ^ A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1997. Paludicola 1(2):80-90.
  6. ^ Bi, Shundong, Jin Meng, Sarah McLean, Wenyu Wu, Xijun Ni & Jie Ye. 2013. A New Genus of Aplodontid Rodent (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Oligocene of Northern Junggar Basin, China. Public Library of Science, ONE 8(1): e52625.
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