Palaearctomys Douglass 1903 (squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Alternative spelling: Palaeoarctomys

Full reference: E. Douglass. 1903. New vertebrates from the Montana Tertiary. Annals of Carnegie Museum 2(5):145-199

Parent taxon: Marmotini according to C. C. Black 1963

See also Bryant 1945, Douglass 1903, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Wilson 1960

Sister taxa: Ammospermophilus, Arctomyoides, Callospermophilus, Citellus, Cynomys, Eutamias, Ictidomys, Marmota, Miospermophilus, Neotamias, Notocitellus, Otospermophilus, Paenemarmota, Poliocitellus, Protospermophilus, Spermophilus, Tamias, Urocitellus, Xerospermophilus, Spermophilinus

Subtaxa: Palaearctomys montanus

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Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Palaearctomys in the database

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