Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontiidae
Alternative combination: Prosciurus daxnerae
Full reference: A. V. Lopatin. 2000. New early Miocene Aplodontidae and Eomyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Aral Formation of the Altynshokysu Locality (North Aral Region). Paleontological Journal 34(2):198-202
Belongs to Proansomys according to O. Maridet et al. 2017
See also Lopatin 2000
Sister taxa: Proansomys badamae, Proansomys dureensis
Type specimen: NMW, no. 1994/00271/0001/1, a tooth (Left M1). Its type locality is Altynshokysu (bone bed II), which is in an Oligocene terrestrial claystone in the Aral Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Altynshokysu (bone bed II)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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