Subfamily Tupaiinae Gray 1825 (tree shrew)

Mammalia - Insectivora - Tupaiidae

Synonyms: Cladobatidae Bonaparte 1838, Cladobatina Bonaparte 1838, Glisoricina Pomel 1848

Parent taxon: Tupaiidae according to X. Ni and Z. Qiu 2012

See also Chopra and Vasishat 1979, Jaekel 1911 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Adapisoriculinae, Anathana, Dendrogale, Eodendrogale, Ptilocercinae, Ptilocercus

Subtaxa: Palaeotupaia Prodendrogale Tupaia

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore-frugivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Pakistan (1)

• Baodean of China (1)

• Miocene of China (1), India (1), Thailand (1)

Total: 6 collections including 8 occurrences

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