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Murinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	55675	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55675

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Muridae : Murinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
-	Eumuroida	Steppan et al. 2004
family	Muridae	Illiger 1811
subfamily	Murinae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Murinae	subfamily	belongs to Muridae	stated with evidence	Ruedas and Kirsch, 1997
Murinae	subfamily	belongs to Muridae	stated without evidence	Lundelius and Turnbull, 1999
Murinae	subfamily	belongs to Muridae	stated with evidence	Steppan et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

27 (82%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore, insectivore (based on Muridae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. van de Weerd. 1976. Rodent faunas of the Mio-Pliocene continental sediments of the Teruel-Alfambra region, Spain. Utrecht Micropalaeontological Bulletins, Special Publication 2:1-217

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Otomyini tribe	listed (PBDB)		1	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Antemus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Leopoldamys genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Leporillus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Maxomys genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Melomys genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Mus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	House Mouse	197	8.70 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Myomys genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Niviventer genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Potwarmus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Rattus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Rat	129	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Sundamys genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1997	Murinae Ruedas and Kirsch
1999	Murinae Lundelius and Turnbull p. 132
2004	Murinae Steppan et al. p. 547

References

van de Weerd A. (1976) Rodent faunas of the Mio-Pliocene continental sediments of the Teruel-Alfambra region, Spain, Utrecht Micropalaeontological Bulletins, Special Publication 2, 1-217

Ruedas L. A., Kirsch J. A. W. (1997) Systematics of Maxomys Sody, 1936 (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae): DNA/DNA hybridization studies of some Borneo-Javan species and allied Sundaic and Australo-Papuan genera, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 61 3, 385-408

Lundelius E. L., Turnbull W. D. (1999) Leporillus (Rodentia; Muridae) from Madura Cave, W. A., Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 121, 129-146

Steppan S. J., Adkins R. M., et al (2004) Phylogeny and divergence-date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes, Systematic Biology 53 4, 533-553

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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