Diatomys
| Diatomys Temporal range: Early Miocene – Middle Miocene | |
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| Fossil specimen, Tianjin Natural History Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Diatomyidae |
| Genus: | †Diatomys Li, 1974 |
| Type species | |
| †Diatomys shantungensis Li, 1974 | |
| Species | |
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Diatomys is an extinct rodent genus known from Miocene deposits in China, Japan, Pakistan, and Thailand. The fossil range is from the late Early Miocene to the Middle Miocene (22.5–11 Ma).
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