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Taxonomy
Mastomys was named by Thomas (1915). It is extant. Its type is Mus coucha.
It was assigned to Muridae by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Muridae by McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1915 | Mastomys Thomas |
1997 | Mastomys McKenna and Bell |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Mastomys Thomas 1915
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Mastomys coucha Smith 1834 [southern multimammate mouse]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (21 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Zanclean | Kenya | M. sp. (21510) | |
Pliocene | Tanzania (Eastern Drift Valley) | M. cinereus (32050) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene - Piacenzian | Ethiopia | M. minor (21546) | |
Piacenzian | Tanzania | M. cinereus (21798 21799) | |
Gelasian | Ethiopia | M. minor (21545 21625 21632 21681 22039) | |
Gelasian | Tanzania | M. cinereus (21804) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Zambia | M. natalensis (68339) | |
Gelasian - Calabrian | Tanzania | M. natalensis (21974) | |
Pleistocene | South Africa | M. natalensis (21915) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | M. natalensis (21949) | |
Calabrian | Tanzania | M. sp. (22064) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Zambia | M. natalensis (68340 68341 68342) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa (Namaqualand) | M. sp. (51187) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Rwanda | M. sp. (129898) |