Abstract: Although discussion on the phylogenetic classification of jumping mice, birch mice and jerboas is still ongoing, we follow the opinion that the two families Zapodidae and Dipodidae are included in the superfamily Dipodoidea and four subfamilies in the family Dipodidae (Qiu , 1996; Daxner-Höck, 1999) , i. e. Allactaginae Vinogradov, 1925 , Dipodinae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 , Cardiocraniinae Vinogradov, 1925 and Euchoreutinae Lyon, 1901. The oldest record of Dipodidae is the genus Protalactaga from the middle Miocene of Quantougou , Gansu and Tunggur, Nei Mongol, which might be derived from a Plesiosminthus-like Oligocene Zapodidae ancestor (Young, 1927; Qiu, 1996, 2000 ). At the present, Dipodidae are restricted in the Palearctic Region. They are adapted to an arid environment and distributed in semi-desert or desert regions of northern Africa, southern Europe, central and northern Asia. In China, there are 7 genera and 13 species mainly living in the arid northwestern regions ( Wang , 2003 ) . The dipodids described below were collected by the scientists of the Sino-Finish cooperative project in vertebrate paleontology and stratigraphy from Lantian, Shaanxi, during the field seasons of 1997 —2000.