Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: C. C. Black. 1963. A review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 130(3):109-248
Parent taxon: Sciuridae according to C. C. Black 1963
See also McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Albanensia, Arctomyoides, Blackiini, Callosciurini, Cedromurinae, Comtia, Cynomyoides, Douglassciurus, Forsythia, Funambulini, Hesperopetes, Heteroxerus, Marmotini, Miosciurus, Nototamias, Oligosciurus, Paenemarmota, Palaearctomys, Palaeosciurus, Parapaenemarmota, Paratamias, Petauristodon, Pliopetaurista, Pliopetes, Pliosciuropterus, Prospermophilus, Protosciurus, Protospermophilus, Protoxerini, Pteromyinae, Ratufini, Sciurillus, Sciurinae, Sciurini, Sciurion, Sciuropterus, Sciurotamias, Tamiasciurini, Vulcanisciurus, Xerini
Subtaxa: Miospermophilus bryanti Miospermophilus lavertyi Miospermophilus wyomingensis
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), United States (39: California, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (2: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (9: California)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 52 collections including 53 occurrences
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