Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth. 2007. A new genus of squirrel (Rodentia, Sciuridae) from the mid-Cenozoic of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):693-698
Parent taxon: Sciuridae according to R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth 2007
See also Korth 2014 and Korth et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Albanensia, Blackiini, Callosciurini, Cedromurinae, Comtia, Cynomyoides, Douglassciurus, Forsythia, Funambulini, Heteroxerus, Marmotini, Nototamias, Oligosciurus, Palaeosciurus, Parapaenemarmota, Perasciuravus, Petauria, Petauristodon, Pliopetaurista, Pliopetes, Pliosciuropterus, Prospermophilus, Protoxerini, Pteromyinae, Ratufini, Sciurillus, Sciurinae, Sciurini, Sciurion, Sciuropterus, Sciurotamias, Tamiasciurini, Vulcanisciurus, Xerini
Subtaxa: Hesperopetes blacki Hesperopetes jamesi Hesperopetes thoringtoni
Type: Hesperopetes thoringtoni
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (2: Mississippi, South Dakota collections)
• Oligocene of United States (3: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming)
Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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