Mojavemyinae

Mojavemyinae Temporal range: middle to late Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Castorimorpha
Superfamily:	Geomyoidea
Family:	?Geomyidae
Subfamily:	†Mojavemyinae Korth and Chaney, 1999
Genera
†Mojavemys †Phelosaccomys

Mojavemyinae is an extinct subfamily of geomyoid rodents. When Mojavemyinae was named, it was not assigned to a family, with a relationship to either Geomyidae or Heteromyidae considered equally likely (Korth and Chaney, 1999), but consensus places the type genus, Mojavemys, in Geomyidae (McKenna and Bell, 1997; Feranec et al., 2005).

References

• Feranec, R.S., Barnosky, A.D. and Quang, C.N. 2005. New populations and biogeographic patterns of the geomyid rodents Lignimus and Mojavemys from the Barstovian of western Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):962-975.
• Korth, W.W., and Chaney, D.S. 1999. A new subfamily of geomyoid rodents (Mammalia) and a possible origin of Geomyidae. Journal of Paleontology 73(6):1191-1200. [1]
• 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