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Anomaluridae (scaly-tailed squirrel)
Taxonomy
Anomaluridae was named by Gill (1872) [also attributed to Gervais 1849]. It is extant.
It was assigned to Simplicidentata by Flower (1883) and Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Sciuromorpha by Gadow (1898); to Sciurognathi by Jaekel (1911); to Rodentia by Nowak (1991); to Anomaluromorpha by Nowak (1999); and to Anomaluroidea by Carroll (1988), Montgelard et al. (2002), Sallam et al. (2010), Sallam et al. (2010) and Heritage et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Simplicidentata by Flower (1883) and Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Sciuromorpha by Gadow (1898); to Sciurognathi by Jaekel (1911); to Rodentia by Nowak (1991); to Anomaluromorpha by Nowak (1999); and to Anomaluroidea by Carroll (1988), Montgelard et al. (2002), Sallam et al. (2010), Sallam et al. (2010) and Heritage et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1872 | Anomaluridae Gill |
| 1883 | Anomaluridae Flower p. 185 |
| 1891 | Anomaluridae Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1898 | Anomaluridae Gadow p. 43 |
| 1911 | Anomaluridae Jaekel p. 222 |
| 1988 | Anomaluridae Carroll |
| 1991 | Anomaluridae Nowak |
| 1999 | Anomaluridae Nowak |
| 2002 | Anomaluridae Montgelard et al. p. 228 |
| 2010 | Anomaluridae Sallam et al. p. 804 |
| 2016 | Anomaluridae Heritage et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Anomaluridae Gill 1872 [scaly-tailed squirrel]
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Subfm. Anomalurinae Heritage et al. 2016
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G. Anomalurus Waterhouse 1843 [scaly-tailed squirrel]
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Anomalurus pusillus Thomas 1887 [dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel]
Subfm. †Zenkerellinae Matschie 1898
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G. Zenkerella Matschie 1898 [flightless scaly-tailed squirrel]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Piacenzian or 41.30000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 38.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 38.0 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Bartonian | Myanmar | Pondaungimys anomaluropsis (41333 41393 177023) | |
| Bartonian - Priabonian | Algeria | Anomaluridae indet., Nementchamys lavocati (59733) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt | Shazurus minutus (67706) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Libya (Sirt Basin) | Prozenkerella saharaensis (166446) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Oman (Dhofar) | Anomaluridae indet. (162464 175334) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Morocco | Paranomalurus riodeoroensis (181053) Paranomalurus riodeoroensis, Argouburus minutus, Oromys zenkerellinopsis (181052) | |
| Chattian | Kenya | Paranomalurus sp. (27855) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Uganda | Zenkerella wintoni (28293) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | Paranomalurus soniae, Paranomalurus walkeri (87341) Paranomalurus sp. (27856 27857 27858) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | Anomalurus parvus (22306) Zenkerella sp. (22069) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Kenya | Anomaluridae indet. (22273) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | Anomaluridae indet. (21340) | |
| Messinian - Piacenzian | Kenya (Turkana District) | Anomaluridae indet. (21332) |