Castorimorpha
{{Short description|Suborder of rodents}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Castorimorpha
| fossil_range = Early Eocene to Recent
| image = Kangaroo-rat.jpg
| image_caption = Ord's kangaroo rat
| taxon = Castorimorpha
| authority = Wood, 1955
| subdivision_ranks = Extant families
| subdivision =
Superfamily Castoroidea:
Superfamily Geomyoidea:
}}
Castorimorpha is the suborder of rodents containing the beavers, gophers and the kangaroo rats. A 2017 study using retroposon markers indicated that they are most closely related to the Anomaluromorpha (the scaly-tailed squirrels and the springhare) and Myomorpha (mouse-like rodents).{{cite journal |last1=Doronina |first1=Liliya |last2=Matzke |first2=Andreas |last3=Churakov |first3=Gennady |last4=Stoll |first4=Monika |last5=Huge |first5=Andreas |last6=Schmitz |first6=Jürgen |title=The beaver’s phylogenetic lineage illuminated by retroposon reads |journal=Scientific Reports |date=3 March 2017 |volume=7 |issue=1 |doi=10.1038/srep43562|doi-access=free|pmc=5335264 }}
Taxonomy
- Suborder Castorimorpha
- Superfamily Castoroidea
- Family †Eutypomyidae
- Family Castoridae – beavers
- Family †Rhizospalacidae
- Infraorder Geomorpha
- Superfamily †Eomyoidea
- Family †Eomyidae
- Superfamily Geomyoidea
- Family †Heliscomyidae
- Family †Florentiamyidae
- Family †Entoptychidae
- Family Geomyidae – pocket gophers
- Family Heteromyidae – kangaroo rats and mice
- Diplolophidae {{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}
- Genus †Floresomys
- Genus †Texomys
- Genus †Jimomys
- Genus †Diplolophus
- Genus †Schizodontomys
- Genus †Griphomys
- Genus †Meliakrouniomys
† indicates extinct taxa.
References
=Citations=
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=Bibliography=
- 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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{{Rodents}}
{{Prehistoric rodents}}
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Category:Extant Eocene first appearances
Category:Taxa named by Albert Elmer Wood
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