Mammalia - Rodentia - Spalacidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Muroidea according to S. J. Steppan et al. 2004
See also Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gray 1821, McKenna and Bell 1997, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Wood 1958
Sister taxa: Cricetopsinae, Eucricetodontidae, Eumuroida, Heterocricetodontidae, Lophiomyinae, Myospalacinae, Platacanthomyinae, Pseudocricetodontidae
Subtaxa: Heramys Nannospalax Pannoniamys Rhizomyinae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (11 collections), Kenya (8), Thailand (1), Vietnam (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (6), India (1), Moldova (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene of China (11), Greece (2), India (1), Libya (3), Nepal (1), Pakistan (19), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Turkey (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Pakistan (2)
• Oligocene of Serbia and Montenegro (1)
Total: 78 collections including 101 occurrences