Simplomys, García-Paredes & Peláez-Campomanes & Álvarez-Sierra, 2009

García-Paredes, Israel, Peláez-Campomanes, Pablo & Álvarez-Sierra, M. Ángeles, 2009, Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) with a simple dental pattern: a new genus and new species from the European Early and Middle Miocene, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (3), pp. 622-652 : 641

REMARKS ON SIMPLOMYS ALJAPHI

This species is included in Simplomys gen. nov. because of its degree of reduction and simplification of the premolars and m3. The morphology of the premolars and the m3 of S. aljaphi , and their size relative to the molars are more similar to S. simplicidens than to Ps. ibericus . The morphology of m1 and m2 is also close to that of S. simplicidens . Most specimens from Montaigu-le-Blin described by Hugueney et al. (1978) have a relatively simple morphology and a similar number of ridges as in the most complicated S. simplicidens upper molars. The complicated ones are, however, more similar to Ps. ibericus than to S. simplicidens .

Other than the type locality, this species has been reported from Autol (Cuenca, 1983, 1985) and Moncalvillo ( Daams, Lacomba & López Martínez, 1986) in central Spain and from the Upper Freshwater Molasse in Switzerland ( Kälin, 1997) (see Supporting Information Appendix S1 for details on localities and references).