Family Tupaiidae Gray 1825 (tree shrew)

Mammalia - Insectivora - Tupaiidae

Alternative spelling: Tupaeidae

Parent taxon: Menotyphla according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Carroll 1988, Chopra and Vasishat 1979, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Gunnell 1989, Helgen 2005, Ni and Qiu 2012, Nowak 1991, Qiu 1986, Schlosser 1877, Tong 1988 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Adapisoriculinae Anathana Dendrogale Eodendrogale Ptilocercinae Ptilocercus Tupaiinae

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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 (6), India (1), Pakistan (2), Thailand (1)

• Oligocene of China (1), Pakistan (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of China (1)

Total: 16 collections including 19 occurrences

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