Superfamily Gliroidea Muirhead 1819 (rodent)

Mammalia - Rodentia

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, 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, Proglires, Protrogomorpha, Pseudomys, Quercymys, Remyidae, Sciurognathi, Sciuroidea, Sciuromorpha, Siphneidae, Taeniodus, Theridomyoidea, Yuomyidae, Zamoramys, Zelomyidae

Subtaxa: Gliridae Seleviniidae

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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 (4), Slovakia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (21), Turkey (1)

• 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 (4), 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: 620 collections including 1277 occurrences

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