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Taxon: Family †Cylindrodontidae Miller & Gidley, 1918 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Sciuravida (Clade) McKenna & Bell 1997

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 186 (note 1).

Subsequent positions

†Sciuravida (Suborder) McKenna & Bell, 1997

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 189.

Original entries

Questionably †*Cylindrodontinae* (Subfamily) Miller & Gidley, 1918
Questionably †*Dawsonomys* (Genus) Gazin, 1961
Questionably †*Downsimys* (Genus) Flynn, Jacobs & Cheema, 1986
Questionably †*Jaywilsonomyinae* (Subfamily) Wood, 1974

Current position

†Sciuravida (Suborder) McKenna & Bell, 1997

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 189. [new position]

Alternative positions

†Ischyromyoidea (Superfamily) Alston, 1876

Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 635.

Historical positions

†*Sciuravida* (Suborder) McKenna & Bell, 1997	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 189. [new position]
†*Ischyromyoidea* (Superfamily) Alston, 1876	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 635.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†10g
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[; †10g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[; †10g]

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