Pedetidae

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Pedetidae
Temporal range: Early Miocene to Recent [1]
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Springhare (Pedetes sp.)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Anomaluromorpha
Family: Pedetidae
Gray, 1825 [2] [3]
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The Pedetidae are a family of rodents. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] The two living species, the springhares, are distributed throughout much of Southern Africa and also around Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. [10] Fossils have been found as far north as Turkey. [11] Together with the anomalures and zenkerella, Pedetidae forms the suborder Anomaluromorpha. The fossil genus Parapedetes is also related. [11]

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Taxonomy

The family includes one living genus and four extinct genera. The Asian fossil Diatomys was previously included, [11] but is now classified in the family Diatomyidae with the Laotian rock rat.

References

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  11. 1 2 3 McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN   978-0-231-11013-6 (p. 185)
  12. 1 2 3 4 M. Pickford and P. Mein (2011). "New Pedetidae (Rodentia: Mammalia) from the Mio-Pliocene of Africa". Estudios Geológicos. 67 (2): 455–469. doi: 10.3989/egeol.40714.202 .

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