Cedromus Wilson 1949 (squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Full reference: R. W. Wilson. 1949. On some White River fossil rodents. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 584(2):27-50

Parent taxon: Cedromurinae according to B.-Y. Wang and D. Dashzeveg 2005

See also Korth et al. 2022, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Wilson 1949

Sister taxa: Kherem, Oligospermophilus

Subtaxa: Cedromus modicus Cedromus savannae Cedromus wardi Cedromus wilsoni

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Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore

Distribution:

• Arikareean of United States (3: Nebraska collections)

• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (16: Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)

• Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)

Total: 22 collections including 23 occurrences

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