Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: W. W. Korth. 2014. Rodents (Mammalia) from the Whitneyan (Middle Oligocene) Cedar Pass Fauna of South Dakota. Annals of Carnegie Museum 82(4):373-398
Belongs to Douglassciurus according to W. W. Korth et al. 2022
See also Korth 2014
Sister taxa: Douglassciurus jeffersoni, Douglassciurus oaxacaensis
Type specimen: SDSM 56506, a mandible (right dentary with i1, p4–m3). Its type locality is Cedar Pass (SDSM V712), which is in a Whitneyan terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: South Dakota collection)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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