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Miopetaurista ✝

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Description

Miopetaurista is an extinct genus of flying squirrel closely related to flying squirrels of today. Fossils of this species have been found from the Miocene of Europe (France, Germany) and Asia (China).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miopetaurista, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3240594	https://www.gbif.org/species/3240594
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41503	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41503

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Sciuridae : Miopetaurista

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
superfamily	Sciuroidea
family	Sciuridae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Pteromyinae
genus	Miopetaurista	Kretzoi 1962

Scientific Name

Miopetaurista Kretzoi, 1962

Name Published In

Evi Jelént. magy. K. földt. Intéz. 1959

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Miopetaurista	genus	belongs to Petauristini	stated without evidence	de Bruijn et al., 1980
Miopetaurista	genus	belongs to Pteromyinae	stated without evidence	Mercer and Roth, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.9 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

3.20 - 1.80 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

granivore, frugivore (based on Sciuridae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miopetaurista

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Miopetaurista albanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Miopetaurista crusafonti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Miopetaurista dehmi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	20.4 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Miopetaurista diescalidus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Miopetaurista gaillardi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.7 Ma Miocene
Miopetaurista gibberosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Miopetaurista lappi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Miopetaurista neogrivensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Miopetaurista thaleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	8.70 Ma Miocene	4.90 Ma Pliocene
Miopetaurista tobieni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cryptopterus webbi ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	4.90 Ma Pliocene
Sciurus gibberosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Meinipterus Kretzoi & Kretzoi, 2000	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Sciuridae : *Meinipterus*
Cryptopterus Mein, 1970	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Sciuridae : *Cryptopterus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1962	Miopetaurista Kretzoi
1970	Cryptopterus Mein
1980	Cryptopterus Kurten and Anderson p. 222
1980	Miopetaurista de Bruijn et al. p. 251
1997	Cryptopterus McKenna and Bell
2003	Miopetaurista Mercer and Roth

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

de Bruijn H., van der Meulen A.J., et al (1980) The mammals from the Lower Miocene of Aliveri (Island of Evia, Greece). Part 1. The Sciuridae, Proceedings of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 83 3, 241-261

Mercer J. M., Roth V. L. (2003) The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny, Science 299, 1568-1572

Evi Jelént. magy. K. földt. Intéz. 1959 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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