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Diatomyidae

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Description

The rodent family Diatomyidae, found in Asia, is represented by a single known living species, Laonastes aenigmamus.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4828821	https://www.gbif.org/species/4828821
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	100680	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=100680

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Diatomyidae

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
family	Diatomyidae	Mein and Ginsburg 1997

Scientific Name

Diatomyidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Diatomyidae	family	belongs to Rodentia	stated with evidence	Marivaux and Welcomme, 2003
Diatomyidae	family	belongs to Hystricognathi	stated without evidence	Dawson et al., 2006
Diatomyidae	family	belongs to Rodentia	stated with evidence	Flynn, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Mein and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Les mammiferes du gisement miocene inferieure de Li Mae Long, Thailande; Systematique biostratigraphie et paleoenvironment. Geodiversitas 19(4):783-844

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Diatomys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Dolosimus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Fallomus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	33.9 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Inopinatia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Laonastes genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Khanyou			0 Ma Extant
Marymus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Willmus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1997	Diatomyidae Mein and Ginsburg p. 810
2003	Diatomyidae Marivaux and Welcomme
2005	Laonastidae Jenkins et al.
2006	Diatomyidae Dawson et al. p. 1458
2007	Diatomyidae Flynn

References

Mein P., Ginsburg L. (1997) Les mammiferes du gisement miocene inferieure de Li Mae Long, Thailande; Systematique biostratigraphie et paleoenvironment, Geodiversitas 19 4, 783-844

Marivaux L., Welcomme J.-L. (2003) New diatomyid and baluchimyine rodents from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills, Balochistan): systematic and paleobiogeographic implications, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 2, 420-434

Dawson M. R., Marivaux L., et al (2006) Laonastes and the "Lazarus effect" in Recent mammals, Science 311, 1456-1458

Flynn L. J. (2007) Origin and Evolution of the Diatomyidae, with Clues to Paleoecology from the Fossil Record, Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 39, 173-181

Dawson, Mary R., Laurent Marivaux, Chuan-kui Li, K. Christopher Beard, and Grégoire Métais, 2006: Laonastes and the "Lazarus Effect" in Recent Mammals. Science, vol. 311, no. 5766. 1456-1458. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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

web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Systema Naturae 2000 (2006 version), PaleoDB - 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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