Tinfields rock rat [SEP] parent taxon
Tinfields rock rat
Tinfields rock rat ("Aethomys stannarius") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae
found in Cameroon and Nigeria.
Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
such a comparison, Dawson "et al." believed the Laotian rock rat belongs to a previously described family, which had only been known from fossils, the Diatomyidae. The Diatomyidae are known from a series of fossils from the early Oligocene (~32.5 mya) until the Miocene (~11 mya). The discovery of the Laotian rock rat means an 11 million-year gap exists in the fossil record where no diatomyids have been found. Dawson "et al." described the Diatomyidae as a Lazarus taxon due to this