Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: H. de Bruijn and P. Mein. 1968. On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion-Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel Basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part V. The Sciurinae. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Anthropology 71(1):73-90
Parent taxon: Tamiini according to H. de Bruijn and P. Mein 1968
See also McKenna and Bell 1997, Mercer and Roth 2003 and Pickford et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Ammospermophilus, Callospermophilus, Cynomys, Eutamias, Ictidomys, Marmota, Neotamias, Notocitellus, Otospermophilus, Poliocitellus, Spermophilus, Tamias, Urocitellus, Xerospermophilus
Subtaxa: Spermophilinus besanus Spermophilinus bredai Spermophilinus giganteus Spermophilinus turolensis
Type: Sciurus bredai
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of China (1 collection)
• MN 13 of Greece (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Austria (4), China (4), France (14), Germany (16), Greece (8), Hungary (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1), Spain (17), Switzerland (12), Turkey (3)
Total: 91 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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