Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae

Alternative combination: Prosciurus clausulus

Full reference: W. W. Korth. 2009. Mammals from the Blue Ash Local Fauna (Late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia, Part 4: family Aplodontidae. Paludicola 4(3):89-106

Belongs to Altasciurus according to W. W. Korth et al. 2022

See also Korth 2009 and Korth and Tabrum 2017

Sister taxa: Altasciurus albiclivus, Altasciurus relictus

Type specimen: CM 54074, a tooth (right M1 or M2)

Ecology: fossorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Arner Ranch ant mounds (Eocene to Oligocene of Nebraska)

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