Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Parent taxon: Sicistinae according to A. V. Lopatin 1999
See also Alroy 2002, Li and Qiu 1980 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Plesiosminthus admyarion Plesiosminthus asiaticus Plesiosminthus barsboldi Plesiosminthus bavaricus Plesiosminthus conjunctus Plesiosminthus fremdi Plesiosminthus huangshuiensis Plesiosminthus margaritae Plesiosminthus meridionalis Plesiosminthus moniqueae Plesiosminthus moralesi Plesiosminthus myarion Plesiosminthus olzi Plesiosminthus promyarion Plesiosminthus schaubi Plesiosminthus tereskentensis Plesiosminthus winistoerferi Plesiosminthus xiningensis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (3 collections), Germany (2), Mongolia (9), Switzerland (1), United States (2: California, Texas)
• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Mongolia (1)
• Oligocene of China (6), France (4), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (7), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (7), Switzerland (1)
Total: 50 collections including 57 occurrences
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