Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Parent taxon: Castorinae according to N. Rybczynski 2007
See also Alroy 2002, Cope 1881, Hay 1902, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sach and Heizmann 2001
Sister taxa: Castor, Hystricops, Propalaeocastor, Sinocastor
Subtaxa: Steneofiber depereti
Ecology: amphibious browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Kazakhstan (1 collection), Poland (1), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene of France (24), Germany (7), Poland (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (5), Turkey (3)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), China (1), France (1), Germany (3), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (3), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 60 collections including 69 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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