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Petromyscinae
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,
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<bibCitation id="162EF3958EF6A216E91618EDECB62BF4" author="Roberts" pageNumber="953" pagination="434" title="Petromyscinae" volumeTitle="Mammals of South Africa" year="1951">
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Mammals of
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: 434
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.
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<subSubSection id="5E483B5E5DD9AD3F17A880D18DD2D95B" pageNumber="953" type="child_taxa">
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<paragraph id="04DA906608698514B26AA55AEE4525C8" pageNumber="953">
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<emphasis id="C4288CBC9E1835D607882F9D6278B20E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="953">Genera:</emphasis>
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1 genus with 4 species:
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Genus
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<emphasis id="5C95FBD4B4126249FF1ACB6EA2F0F087" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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Thomas 1926
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(4 species)
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<subSubSection id="3C682142A1009CE2482AF13EADFE4366" pageNumber="953" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="59441AF53CA7F33C096ACBFCD999D3AA" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="953">Discussion:</emphasis>
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Emended definition—Small-bodied (
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), terrestrial muroids with large ears, short limbs, short hind feet and digits, hairy tail (caudal hairs as long as 2-3 scale rows) equal to or moderately longer than head and body, and two pairs inguinal mammae; front feet with stubby thumb and four clawed digits (two outer nearly as long as the two inner); hind foot with five clawed digits (first very short, next three subequal in length, fifth slightly shorter) and full complement of plantar pads (hypothenar much smaller than thenar); pelage long, soft and silky; rostrum long and slender, interorbit broad and smooth, braincase wide and flat without temporal ridging; zygomatic plate wide with prominent projecting anterior spine (deep zygomatic notch) and inconspicuous masseteric tubercle; incisive foramina narrow and reaching anterior margins of M1s or extending beyond them, posterior palatine foramina at middle of M2s; bony palate wide and projecting past posterior margin of M3s to form a prominent shelf confluent with long, very wide, and slightly excavated parapterygoid fossae; mesopterygoid fossa very narrow, breached by spacious sphenopalatine vacuities; alisphenoid strut wide, robust, and appressed against braincase; subsquamosal foramen small in young animals, closed in adults, its former position marked by prominent hamular process; carotid circulatory partially derived (large stapedial foramen, no sphenofrontal foramen or squamosal-alisphenoid groove; pattern 2 as per
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<bibRefCitation id="3BD44F8438423F22E98D9043500175FD" author="Carleton, M. D." refId="ref51389" refString="Carleton, M. D. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships in neotomine-peromyscine rodents (Muroidea) and a reappraisal of the dichotomy within New World Cricetinae. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 157: 1 - 146." year="1980">Carleton, 1980</bibRefCitation>
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, and
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<bibRefCitation id="E2A1DFB1BF49170919756962EB2F5EAE" author="Voss, R. S." refId="ref378240" refString="Voss, R. S. 1988. Systematics and ecology of ichthyomyine rodents (Muroidea): Patterns of morphological evolution in a small adaptive radiation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 188: 259 - 493." year="1988">Voss, 1988</bibRefCitation>
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); bulla moderately inflated; mandible with delicate coronoid processes below which incisor capsule forms low mound; upper incisors strongly ophisthodont, enamel faces smooth; lower incisors ungrooved; molars brachydont with uppers three-rooted and lowers two-rooted; anterocone(id) of M1 and m1 large and entire; cusps longitudinally connected by short crests; large cingular lingual cusp adjacent to protocone on M1 and M2 and coalesces with wear, anteroloph and mesoloph absent, anterolophid absent, short mesolophid connecting large mesostylid with entoconid on m1 and m2; wide posterior cingulum (posteroloph) connects posterior margins of metacone and hypocone on M1 and M2, prominent posterior cingulum on m1 and m2; M2 two-thirds size of M1, M3 very small, half the size of M2 with simple C-shaped occlusal pattern unlike that of M2; (drawn from study of specimens in
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and
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, along with information from F.
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<bibRefCitation id="0F463137FE074B8FFBAC0A0C0450E55E" author="Petter, F." refId="ref283755" refString="Petter, F. 1967 b. Particularities dentaires des Petromyscinae Roberts 1951 (Rongeurs, Cricetides). Mammalia, 31: 217 - 224." year="1967">
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Petter, 1967
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<emphasis id="F03B55B99EEAAE6F640C4152DA6EFA37" italics="true" pageNumber="953">b</emphasis>
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, and
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<bibRefCitation id="9370BD40413C782319A752BEB3F8ACC2" author="Carleton, M. D. & G. G. Musser" refId="ref52182" refString="Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1984. Muroid rodents. Pp. 289 - 379, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 686 pp." year="1984">Carleton and Musser, 1984</bibRefCitation>
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; see dental terminology in
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<bibRefCitation id="4A6BA643B89FFFF0A0B2B8126F352508" author="Carleton, M. D. & G. G. Musser" refId="ref52246" refString="Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1989. Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae, Sigmodontinae): A synopsis of Microryzomys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 191: 1 - 83." year="1989">Carleton and Musser, 1989</bibRefCitation>
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). Contents—
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<emphasis id="7F39E392E6BCE8F204ED50B8C223C5DB" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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Thomas, 1926
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.
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Based on the lingual cusps on their upper molars,
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Hayman (1962
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<emphasis id="178E6805A840815E5C9DC47AB0A37225" italics="true" pageNumber="953">a</emphasis>
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)
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regarded
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<emphasis id="AE0FF8A3B74E7FF68CA50F9EA70419AF" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Delanymys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="28121AE93451FFE5C55CE47231E68ECF" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1926" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Petromyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="3B04D17A0CB1A50CBD9B3948514EAB55" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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as dendromurines.
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<bibRefCitation id="D7D6827D8D99456522DE0F452748F153" author="Lavocat, R." refId="ref205333" refString="Lavocat, R. 1964. On the systematic affinities of the genus Delanymys Hayman. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 175: 183 - 185." year="1964">Lavocat (1964)</bibRefCitation>
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considered their cusp patterns as structural links between
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<emphasis id="FDA3D23EBAB4AF6C0AC4980E9F34BED5" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Mystromys</emphasis>
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and the dendromurines and allied them with cricetids, a view shared by F.
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<bibRefCitation id="98B27F5D431E23936B5ED04110F431E7" author="Petter, F." refId="ref283675" refString="Petter, F. 1966 c. L'origine des murides plan cricetin et plans murins. Mammalia, 30 (2): 205 - 225." year="1966">
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Petter (1966
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<emphasis id="3DA81D9D8C499CA86A8590A01A6C76B7" italics="true" pageNumber="953">c</emphasis>
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)
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</bibRefCitation>
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, W.
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<bibRefCitation id="64E380214B8756A6ED15305851DFADCE" author="Verheyen, W. N." refId="ref369994" refString="Verheyen, W. N. 1965 b. Some notes on the morphology of Delanymys brooksi Hayman 1962. Bulletins de la Societe Royale de Zoologie D'Anvers, 36: 1 - 12." year="1965">
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Verheyen (1965
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<emphasis id="7D4083DD39D38EFC1DC503DA43115F91" italics="true" pageNumber="953">b</emphasis>
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)
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, and earlier by
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<bibRefCitation id="151D56114D2F42F62F9960D274C02139" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">Ellerman (1941)</bibRefCitation>
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. Whereas these authors regarded the accessory lingual cusp to be an elaboration of the cingulum,
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Petter (1967
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<emphasis id="3A89560A7E470AA33577505701518401" italics="true" pageNumber="953">b</emphasis>
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)
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considered it to represent the protocone, the new cusp having developed from the longitudinal crest (mure). Petter therefore united
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<emphasis id="94BD99543C27C362715B6FBAAFED7FA7" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Delanymys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<emphasis id="D95F1D92ABDFD03D2F91B75071518CC4" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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in Roberts’ (1951)
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<taxonomicName id="0B64BEC6A8C2E77696047A61C718CCAA" authorityName="Roberts" authorityYear="1951" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Petromyscinae">Petromyscinae</taxonomicName>
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and stressed their distant relationship to true dendromurines. Aside from the shared lingual cusps,
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<emphasis id="75EDAD0E5F722092E08C6ABE3741A152" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Delanymys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<emphasis id="0AFB6700C1967B1877759EDA235BB1B2" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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have little in common and their union as sister taxa in the same subfamily has been challenged (
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="550DF45DAF986AE26F0BB583C9D29003" author="Denys, C." refId="ref82009" refString="Denys, C. 1994 c. Affinites systematiques de Stenodontomys (Mammalia, Rodentia) rongeur Muroidea du Pliocene de Langebaanweg (Afrique du Sud). Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, 318, ser. 2: 411 - 416." year="1994">
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Denys, 1994
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<emphasis id="65C2596C98A224759B15E1E8ACF9184B" italics="true" pageNumber="953">c</emphasis>
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</bibRefCitation>
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). Here we disassociate the two and treat
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<emphasis id="F56D9A47FFF38869EFD2BDCE472CF2B2" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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as the sole known member of
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<taxonomicName id="BD2D90D9A24DAC8309D72E307A870FA5" authorityName="Roberts" authorityYear="1951" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Petromyscinae">Petromyscinae</taxonomicName>
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(see account of
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<taxonomicName id="5653985BF0ED27B6F5C09B3800B88F09" authorityName="Musser & Carleton" authorityYear="2005" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Delanymyinae">Delanymyinae</taxonomicName>
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). According to phyletic interpretation of cytochrome
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<emphasis id="E9C6730B3C9CE5C6AF56700617D9FE32" italics="true" pageNumber="953">b</emphasis>
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data (
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<bibRefCitation id="936E306EB1E8B718A04598D9D6252CA6" author="Jansa, S. A. & S. M. Goodman & P. K. Tucker" refId="ref172368" refString="Jansa, S. A., S. M. Goodman, and P. K. Tucker. 1999. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the native rodents of Madagascar (Muridae: Nesomyinae): A test of the single-origin hypothesis. Cladistics, 15: 253 - 270." year="1999">Jansa et al., 1999</bibRefCitation>
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), the genus is closely related to
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<taxonomicName id="E907BEA99917F17EA59C433060524759" baseAuthorityName="Noack" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Mystromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="88FFAD2DCC9F0AB5E6EF2259AF321ED4" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Mystromys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and both form a clade that is distantly removed from the single dendromurine sampled (
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<taxonomicName id="63DD5513ED2B4AC1BC71976936159D87" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1846" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Steatomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="72C9B10D11ECA3F521BC86AF95144541" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Steatomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="76E6F46504EA7F22F837F779F00CD90D" pageNumber="953">
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<taxonomicName id="D114FD82D8D9BAA95A2A58D38D1DD7C8" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1926" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Petromyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="5DE028466C566527FAB425847FFC2657" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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has not yet been convincingly linked by fossils to a possible ancestral group, although both
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<bibRefCitation id="776AA47BB3E0360B97E1BB036B4F3E19" author="Tong, H. & J. - J. Jaeger" refId="ref357989" refString="Tong, H., and J. - J. Jaeger. 1993. Muroid rodents from the Middle Miocene Fort Ternan locality (Kenya) and their contribution to the phylogeny of muroids. Palaeontographica. Abteilung A, Palaozoologie-Stratigraphie, 229 (1 - 3): 51 - 73." year="1993">Tong and Jaeger (1993)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation id="E6D9885F0CFA0EDF68DA95A9364C30CF" author="Mein, P. & M. Pickford & B. Senut" refId="ref236703" refString="Mein, P., M. Pickford, and B. Senut. 2000 b. Late Miocene micromammals from the Harasib karst deposits, Namibia. Part 2 a-Myocricetodontinae, Petromyscinae and Namibimyinae (Rodentia, Gerbillidae). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 12: 391 - 401." year="2000">
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Mein et al. (2000
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<emphasis id="82BCB21E32A8DF66B0D3EB38A4B08ECA" italics="true" pageNumber="953">b</emphasis>
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)
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</bibRefCitation>
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believed that it represents a lineage derived from Miocene myocricetodontines. Isolated molars identified as "
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<taxonomicName id="728C24A06370B347320CF42B975C5FBB" authorityName="Roberts" authorityYear="1951" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Petromyscinae">Petromyscinae</taxonomicName>
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" have been uncovered from middle Miocene sediments of
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<collectingCountry id="7A47AC9ECB2FF25463DE7B15D6271A05" name="Namibia">Namibia</collectingCountry>
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and as
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<taxonomicName id="111AC9AC9DE9425A6188626B9D06F945" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1926" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Petromyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="649C3E6C93514F49F421149B2EDA675A" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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||
from late Miocene beds in the same region (
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<bibRefCitation id="334A44DED5A8E0727D0A431F6417E807" author="Senut, B. & M. Pickford & P. Mein & G. Conroy & J. Van Couvering" refId="ref323714" refString="Senut, B., M. Pickford, P. Mein, G. Conroy, and J. Van Couvering. 1992. Discovery of 12 new Late Cainozoic fossiliferous sites in palaeokarsts of the Otavi Mountains, Namibia. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences (Paris), 314 (ser. II): 727 - 733." year="1992">Senut et al., 1992</bibRefCitation>
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). The latter teeth have been recently reidentified as
|
||
<taxonomicName id="16A60C5A33411AE55E6EF8C1B7E5B4BE" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Harimyscus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hoali">
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<emphasis id="67C5A70904833D3BC03DCA8F48377D5F" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Harimyscus hoali</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, a form regarded as the earliest known petromyscine (
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<bibRefCitation id="1B3CC82A5575A6BA5952C6E71E51DD41" author="Mein, P. & M. Pickford & B. Senut" refId="ref236703" refString="Mein, P., M. Pickford, and B. Senut. 2000 b. Late Miocene micromammals from the Harasib karst deposits, Namibia. Part 2 a-Myocricetodontinae, Petromyscinae and Namibimyinae (Rodentia, Gerbillidae). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 12: 391 - 401." year="2000">
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Mein et al., 2000
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<emphasis id="D58AFA33F45EA935AF56D723D5EB36E5" italics="true" pageNumber="953">b</emphasis>
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</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<collectingCountry id="177991BEFAF2F164F9CF8C65EB085FC9" name="Namibia">Namibia</collectingCountry>
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||
today comprises the greater part of the distribution of three extant species of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="C8A1B8DCA14139B1C94D3600A5B4D846" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1926" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Petromyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="CAEA2ACAAAA27474BDDA280356472340" italics="true" pageNumber="953">Petromyscus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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</paragraph>
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.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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