Sayimys Wood 1937 (gundi)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae

Parent taxon: Ctenodactylidae according to Q. Li and J. Meng 2015

See also McKenna and Bell 1997, Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 and Wessels et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Africanomys, Confiniummys, Ctenodactylinae, Ctenodactylus, Dubiomys, Huangomys, Irhoudia, Leptotataromys, Massoutiera, Metasayimys, Ottomania, Pectinator, Prosayimys, Protataromys, Tataromyinae, Testouromys, Woodomys, Yindirtemyinae

Subtaxa: Sayimys perplexus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of China (2 collections), Greece (2), India (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (5), Mongolia (1), Pakistan (18)

• Oligocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Turkey (1)

Total: 32 collections including 34 occurrences

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