Castorimorpha

Castorimorpha
Fossil range: Early Eocene to Recent

Extant Families

Superfamily Castoroidea:

Superfamily Geomyoidea:

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.

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

Rodent Families

Anomaluromorpha: Anomaluridae | †Parapedetidae | Pedetidae

† indicates extinct taxa

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