Gobiomyidae

Taxobox
name = Gobiomyidae
fossil_range = middle to late Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
subordo = Hystricomorpha
familia = †Gobiomyidae
familia_authority = Wang, 2001
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = †"Gobiomys"
†"Mergenomys"
†"Youngomys"

Gobiomyidae is a small extinct family of rodents from the Eocene of Asia. The family contains four genera (one remains unnamed) and belongs to the superfamily Ctenodactyloidea (Wang, 2001), which also contains the living Laotian rock rat and gundis and their fossil relatives (families Diatomyidae and Ctenodactylidae, respectively). When Wang named the family, gobiomyids were considered the closest known relatives of Ctenodactylidae, but newer research indicates that Diatomyidae is more closly related to living ctenodactylids (Dawson et al., 2006).

References

* 2006. "Laonastes" and the "Lazarus effect" in Recent mammals. Science, 311:1456-1458.
* 2001. Eocene ctenodactyloids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Nei Mongol, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 39(2):98-114.