Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: B. Engesser. 1979. Relationships of some insectivores and rodents from the Miocene of North America and Europe. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 14:1-68
Parent taxon: Sciuridae according to T. Skwara 1986
See also Engesser 1979 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Albanensia, Arctomyoides, Blackiini, Callosciurini, Cedromurinae, Comtia, Cynomyoides, Douglassciurus, Forsythia, Funambulini, Hesperopetes, Heteroxerus, Marmotini, Miosciurus, Miospermophilus, Nototamias, Oligosciurus, Paenemarmota, Palaearctomys, Palaeosciurus, Parapaenemarmota, Paratamias, Pliopetaurista, Pliopetes, Pliosciuropterus, Prospermophilus, Protosciurus, Protospermophilus, Protoxerini, Pteromyinae, Ratufini, Sciurillus, Sciurinae, Sciurini, Sciurion, Sciuropterus, Sciurotamias, Tamiasciurini, Vulcanisciurus, Xerini
Subtaxa: Petauristodon jamesi Petauristodon mathewsi Petauristodon minimus Petauristodon pattersoni Petauristodon uphami
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Maryland collection)
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Panama (1), United States (31: California, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (4: California, Oregon)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 39 collections including 40 occurrences
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