Castorimorpha Fossil range: Early Eocene to Recent
Kangaroo rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Castorimorpha Wood, 1955
Extant Families
Superfamily Castoroidea: Castoridae Superfamily Geomyoidea: Heteromyidae Geomyidae

Castorimorpha is the suborder of rodents containing the beavers, the pocket gophers, and the kangaroo rats and mice.

[edit] Taxonomy

• Suborder Castorimorpha
  • Superfamily Castoroidea
    • Family †Eutypomyidae
    • Family Castoridae - beavers
    • Family †Rhizospalacidae
  • Infraorder Geomorpha
    • Genus †Griphomys - incertae sedis
    • Genus †Meliakrouniomys - incertae sedis
    • Superfamily †Eomyoidea
      • Family †Eomyidae
    • Superfamily Geomyoidea
      • Genus †Floresomys - incertae sedis
      • Genus †Texomys - incertae sedis
      • Genus †Jimomys - incertae sedis
      • Genus †Heliscomys - incertae sedis
      • Family †Florentiamyidae
      • Genus †Diplolophus - incertae sedis
      • Genus †Schizodontomys - incertae sedis
      • Family †Entoptychidae
      • Family Geomyidae - pocket gophers
      • Family Heteromyidae - kangaroo rats and mice

† indicates extinct taxa.

[edit] References

• Carleton, M. D. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Order Rodentia. Pp 745-752 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8

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