Family Tupaiidae Gray 1825 (tree shrew)

Mammalia - Scandentia - Tupaiidae

Alternative spelling: Tupaeidae

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

See also Carroll 1988, Chopra and Vasishat 1979, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Gunnell 1989, Hay 1930, Helgen 2005, Nowak 1991, Qiu 1986, Schlosser 1877, Tong 1988 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Ptilocercidae, Ptilocercus

Subtaxa: Adapisoriculinae Anathana Dendrogale Eodendrogale Ptilocercinae Tupaiinae

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore-frugivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Malaysia (1)

• Pliocene of Pakistan (1)

• Baodean of China (1)

• Miocene of China (6), India (1), Pakistan (2), Thailand (1)

• Oligocene of Pakistan (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of China (1)

Total: 16 collections including 19 occurrences

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