Eomyidae

Eomyidae
Temporal range: Middle Eocene–Pleistocene
Artist's impression of Eomys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: †Eomyoidea
Family: †Eomyidae
Winge, 1887
Subfamilies

†Apeomyinae
†Eomyinae
†Yoderimyinae

Eomyidae is a family of extinct rodents from North America and Eurasia related to modern day pocket gophers and kangaroo rats. They are known from the Middle Eocene to the Late Miocene in North America and from the Late Eocene to the Pleistocene in Eurasia.[1] Eomyids were generally small, but occasionally large, and tended to be squirrel-like in form and habits.[2] The family includes the earliest known gliding rodent, Eomys quercyi.[3]

The family includes the following genera:[4]

  1. ^ Emry et al. 1997; McKenna & Bell 1997; Flynn 2007, p. 415.
  2. ^ Flynn 2007, p. 415.
  3. ^ Storch, Engesser & Wuttke 1996.
  4. ^ McKenna & Bell 1997; Flynn 2007.
  5. ^ Flynn 2007, pp. 417–418.
  6. ^ Emry et al. 1997.
  7. ^ a b Fejfar, Rummel & Tomida 1998.
  8. ^ a b Smith, Cifelli & Czaplewski 2006.
  9. ^ Korth 2007.
  10. ^ Maridet et al. 2011.
  11. ^ Emry & Korth 2012.
  12. ^ Korth 2008.