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Eumyarion ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4828341	https://www.gbif.org/species/4828341
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41771	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41771

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Muridae : Eumyarion

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : Eumyarion

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
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
family	Cricetidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
subfamily	Eumyarioninae	Uenay 1989
genus	Eumyarion	Thaler 1966

Scientific Name

Eumyarion Thaler, 1966

Name Published In

Mem. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris (N. Ser. C) 17

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eumyarion	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	stated with evidence	Mein and Freudenthal, 1971
Eumyarion	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	stated without evidence	Qiu et al., 1981
Eumyarion	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Eumyarion	genus	belongs to Eumyarioninae	stated with evidence	Maridet et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

11.1 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. Lalaï. 1986. Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs de la fin du Miocène inférieur en Provence. Implications géologiques et paléogéographiques. Palaeovertebrata 16(2):77-126

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cotimus bifidus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	32	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Eumyarion gordesensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Eumyarion helveticus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Eumyarion latior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.1 Ma Miocene
Eumyarion leemanni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.1 Ma Miocene
Eumyarion margueritae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Eumyarion medius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	20.4 Ma Miocene	12.8 Ma Miocene
Eumyarion orhani ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.0 Ma Miocene	20.0 Ma Miocene
Eumyarion tremulus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Eumyarion weinfurteri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	24	33.9 Ma Oligocene	13.7 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Eumyarion Thaler
1971	Eumyarion Mein and Freudenthal p. 29
1981	Eumyarion Qiu et al.
1986	Eumyarion Lalaï
1997	Eumyarion McKenna and Bell
2011	Eumyarion Maridet et al. p. 448

References

Lalaï D. (1986) Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs de la fin du Miocène inférieur en Provence. Implications géologiques et paléogéographiques, Palaeovertebrata 16 2, 77-126

Mein P., Freudenthal M. (1971) Une nouvelle classification des Cricetidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) du Tertiair de l'Europe, Scripta Geologica 2, 1-37

Qiu Z., Li C., et al (1981) Miocene mammalian fossils from Xining Basin, Qinghai, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 19 2, 156-173

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Maridet O., Wu W.-Y., et al (2011) Early Miocene cricetids (Rodentia) from the Junggar basin (Xinjiang, China) and their biochronological implications, Geobios 44 5, 445-459 doi:dx.doi.org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/10.1016/j.geobios.2010.09.004

Mem. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris (N. Ser. C) 17 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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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