Atlantoxerus Major 1893 (squirrel)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Synonym: Getuloxerus Lavocat 1961 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Xerini according to J. M. Mercer and V. L. Roth 2003
See also de Bruijn et al. 1970, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Mein and Ginsburg 1997
Sister taxa: Spermophilopsis, Xerus
Subtaxa: Atlantoxerus blacki Atlantoxerus getulus Atlantoxerus rhodius Getuloxerus adroveri
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of China (1 collection), Spain (1)
• MN 13 of Greece (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Morocco (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), China (3), Italy (1), Libya (1), Mongolia (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (13), Thailand (1)
Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence
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