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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4828286	https://www.gbif.org/species/4828286
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41751	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41751

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Muridae : Copemys

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : Copemys

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
genus	Copemys	Wood 1936

Scientific Name

Copemys Wood, 1936

Name Published In

Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 822

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Copemys	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	stated with evidence	Wood, 1936
Copemys	genus	belongs to Peromyscini	stated without evidence	Baskin, 1978
Copemys	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

4.20 - 1.80 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. E. Wood. 1936. The cricetid rodents described by Leidy and Cope from the Tertiary of North America. American Museum Novitates 822

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Copemys barstowensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Copemys esmeraldensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	23.0 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Copemys lindsayi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Copemys mariae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Copemys niobrarensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Copemys pisinnus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Copemys tenuis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Hesperomys loxodon ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Peromyscus longidens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		39	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Peromyscus pagei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Peromyscus russelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	20.4 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Tregomys shotwelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1936	Copemys Wood
1959	Miochomys Hoffmeister
1968	Tregomys Wilson
1978	Copemys Baskin p. 131
1990	Tregomys Voorhies
1995	Tregomys Sutton and Korth
1997	Copemys McKenna and Bell
1997	Miochomys McKenna and Bell

References

Wood A. E. (1936) The cricetid rodents described by Leidy and Cope from the Tertiary of North America, American Museum Novitates 822

Baskin J. A. (1978) Bensonomys, Calomys, and the origin of the phyllotine group of Neotropical cricetines (Rodentia: Cricetidae), Journal of Mammalogy 59 1, 125-135

Voorhies M. R. (1990) Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska, Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains, 115-151

Sutton J. F., Korth W. W. (1995) Rodents (Mammalia) from the Barstovian (Miocene) Anceney local fauna, Montana, Annals of Carnegie Museum 64 4, 267-314

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

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

Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 822 - 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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