Monosaulax Stirton 1935 (beaver)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

Full reference: R. A. Stirton. 1935. A review of the Tertiary beavers. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 23(13):391-458

Parent taxon: Castoroidini according to W. W. Korth 2008

See also Evander 1999, Korth 1999, Korth 2002, McKenna and Bell 1997, Schiebout and Ting 2000, Stirton 1935 and Xu 1994

Sister taxa: Castoroides, Dipoides, Prodipoides

Subtaxa: Monosaulax curtus Monosaulax pansus Monosaulax progressus Monosaulax skinneri Monosaulax tedi Monosaulax typicus

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Ecology: amphibious browser

Distribution:

• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), China (10), France (3), Kazakhstan (1), Turkey (1), United States (47: California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Oligocene of China (1)

Total: 64 collections including 66 occurrences

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