Castorimorpha

Taxobox
name = Castorimorpha
fossil_range = Early Eocene to Recent

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = Kangaroo rat
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
subordo = Castorimorpha
subordo_authority = Wood, 1955
subdivision_ranks = Extant Families
subdivision =Superfamily Castoroidea:
* CastoridaeSuperfamily Geomyoidea:
* Heteromyidae
* Geomyidae

Castorimorpha is the suborder of rodents containing the beavers, the pocket gophers, and the kangaroo rats and mice.

Taxonomy

*Suborder Castorimorpha
**Superfamily Castoroidea
***Family †Eutypomyidae
***Family Castoridae - beavers
***Family †Rhizospalacidae
**Infraorder Geomorpha
***Genus †"Griphomys" - "incertae sedis"
***Genus †"Meliakrouniomys - "incertae sedis"
***Superfamily †Eomyoidea
****Family †Eomyidae
***Superfamily Geomyoidea
****Genus †"Floresomys" - "incertae sedis"
****Genus †"Texomys" - "incertae sedis"
****Genus †"Jimomys" - "incertae sedis"
****Genus †"Heliscomys" - "incertae sedis"
****Family †Florentiamyidae
****Genus †"Diplolophus" - "incertae sedis"
****Genus †"Schizodontomys" - "incertae sedis"
****Family †Entoptychidae
****Family Geomyidae - pocket gophers
****Family Heteromyidae - kangaroo rats and mice

† indicates extinct taxa.

References

*Carleton, M. D. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Order Rodentia. Pp 745-752 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
*McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. "Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level." Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8