Eomyidae

Eomyidae

Taxobox
name = Eomyidae
fossil_range = Early Eocene to Pleistocene



image_caption = artist's impression of "Eomys"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
subordo = Castorimorpha
infraordo =
familia = †Eomyidae
familia_authority = Winge, 1887
subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies
subdivision = †Apeomyinae
Eomyinae
Yoderimyinae

Eomyidae is a family of extinct rodents from North America and Eurasia related to modern day pocket gophers and kangaroo rats. The family includes the earliest known gliding rodent, "Eomys" (Storch et al., 1996)

References

*Storch G., Engesser, B. and Wuttke, M. 1996. Oldest fossil record of gliding in rodents "Nature" 379:439-441.


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