Miopetaurista diescalidus Daams 1977 (squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Full reference: R. Daams. 1977. Aragonian Sciuroptera (Sciuridae, Rodentia, Mammalia) from Spain. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 80(5):356-359

Belongs to Miopetaurista according to R. Daams 1977

Sister taxa: Miopetaurista crusafonti, Miopetaurista dehmi, Miopetaurista gaillardi, Miopetaurista gibberosa, Miopetaurista lappi, Miopetaurista neogrivensis, Miopetaurista thaleri, Miopetaurista tobieni, Miopetaurista webbi

Type specimen: IVAU BU 1841, a tooth (M1,2 sup dext.). Its type locality is Buñol (Daams Collection), which is in the Miocene of siltstone/lignite Spain.

Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore

Distribution: found only at Buñol (Daams Collection)

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