Proscalops Matthew 1901 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Proscalopidae

Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1901. Fossil mammals of the Tertiary of northeastern Colorado: Ameican Museum collection of 1898. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(7):353-447

Parent taxon: Proscalopidae according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008

See also Barnosky 1981, Bjork 1975, Carroll 1988, Hay 1930, Johnson 1966, Korth et al. 2022, Matthew 1901 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Mesoscalops, Oligoscalops

Subtaxa: Proscalops evelynae Proscalops intermedius Proscalops miocaenus Proscalops secundus Proscalops tertius

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Type: Proscalops miocaenus

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (1: Colorado collection)

• Harrisonian of United States (6: Nebraska)

• Arikareean of United States (8: Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Wyoming)

• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (39: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)

Total: 56 collections including 60 occurrences

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