Eopetes

Eopetes; Temporal range: Priabonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	† Eopetes
Species:	†E. irtyshensis
Binomial name
	†Eopetes irtyshensis; Li et. al., 2023

Last updated March 01, 2025

Eopetes is an extinct genus of sciurine sciurid that lived during the Priabonian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

Eopetes irtyshensis fossils are known from the Keziletuogayi Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang.^[1]

References

↑ Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun; Stidham, Thomas A.; Qin, Chao; Gong, Hao; Zhang, Limin (12 January 2023). "Two large squirrels (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Junggar Basin of northwestern China demonstrate early radiation among squirrels and suggest forested paleoenvironment in the late Eocene of Central Asia". Frontiers in Earth Science . 10. Bibcode:2023FrEaS..1004509L. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.1004509 . ISSN 2296-6463.

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[1] Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun; Stidham, Thomas A.; Qin, Chao; Gong, Hao; Zhang, Limin (12 January 2023). "Two large squirrels (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Junggar Basin of northwestern China demonstrate early radiation among squirrels and suggest forested paleoenvironment in the late Eocene of Central Asia". Frontiers in Earth Science . 10. Bibcode:2023FrEaS..1004509L. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.1004509 . ISSN 2296-6463.

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