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Chaetodipus

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Chaetodipus is a genus of pocket mouse containing 17 species endemic to the United States and Mexico. Like other members of their family such as pocket mice in the genus Perognathus, they are more closely related to pocket gophers than to true mice.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetodipus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2439576	https://www.gbif.org/species/2439576
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41675	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41675

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Heteromyidae : Chaetodipus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
superfamily	Geomyoidea	Bonaparte 1845
family	Heteromyidae	Gray 1868
genus	Chaetodipus	Merriam 1889

Common Name

pocket mouse

Scientific Name

Chaetodipus Merriam, 1889

Name Published In

N. Am. Fauna vol.1 p.5

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Chaetodipus	genus	belongs to Heteromyidae	stated without evidence	Hafner and Hafner, 1983

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

15 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.30 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

granivore, browser (based on Heteromyidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Common Name(s)

Pocket Mouse, Coarse-haired Pocket Mice, Hispid Pocket Mice

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetodipus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chaetodipus arenarius species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus artus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Narrow-skulled Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus baileyi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Bailey's Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus californicus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	California Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus dalquesti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaetodipus eremicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaetodipus fallax species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	San Diego Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus formosus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Long-tailed Pocket Mouse	2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus goldmani species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Goldman's Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus hispidus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hispid Pocket Mouse	18	1.80 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus intermedius species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Rock Pocket Mouse	2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus lineatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Lined Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus nelsoni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Nelson's Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus penicillatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Desert Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus pernix species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Sinaloan Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant
Chaetodipus rudinoris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaetodipus siccus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaetodipus spinatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Spiny Pocket Mouse			0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Burtognathus Hoffmeister, 1986	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Heteromyidae : *Burtognathus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Chaetodipus Merriam
1983	Chaetodipus Hafner and Hafner
1997	Chaetodipus Korth

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Korth W. W. (1997) A new subfamily of primitive pocket mice (Rodentia, Heteromyidae) from the middle Tertiary of North America, Paludicola 1 2, 33-66

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

North Amer. Fauna, No. 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Andersen, John J., and Jessica E. Light, 2012: Phylogeography and subspecies revision of the hispid pocket mouse, Chaetodipus hispidus (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 93, no. 4. 1195-1215. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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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