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 W. W. Korth et al. 2022
See also Black 1963 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, Petauristodon, Pliopetaurista, Pliopetes, Pliosciuropterus, Prospermophilus, Protospermophilus, Protoxerini, Pteromyinae, Ratufini, Sciurillus, Sciurinae, Sciurini, Sciurion, Sciuropterus, Sciurotamias, Tamiasciurini, Vulcanisciurus, Xerini
Subtaxa: Protosciurus condoni Protosciurus mengi Protosciurus rachelae Protosciurus tecuyensis
Type: Protosciurus condoni
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (2: Texas collections)
• Harrisonian of United States (2: Florida, Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (5: California, Nebraska, Oregon)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (5: Florida, Nebraska)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 16 collections including 21 occurrences
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