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: Sciurini according to C. C. Black 1963
See also Korth et al. 2022 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Microsciurus, Miosciurus, Plesiosciurus, Rheithrosciurus, Sciurus, Syntheosciurus
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 (8: California, Nebraska, Oregon)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (7: California, Florida, Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
• Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 22 collections including 26 occurrences
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