Eutamias
| Eutamias Temporal range:Early Mioceneto present
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| Siberian chipmunk(Eutamias sibiricus) | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Tribe: | Marmotini |
| Genus: | Eutamias Trouessart,1880 |
| Type species | |
| Sciurus striatus asiaticus Gmelin, 1788
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Eutamiasis agenusofchipmunkswithin the tribeMarmotiniof thesquirrelfamily. It includes a single living species, theSiberian chipmunk(Eutamias sibiricus). The genus is often treated as asubgenusofTamias,which is now restricted to theeastern chipmunkof North America.[1]Neotamias,which now includes the western North American chipmunks, has also been included inEutamias.[2]
In addition to the Siberian chipmunk, several fossil species have been assigned to this genus:
- †Eutamias ertemtensisQiu, 1991 – late Miocene to Pliocene of China[3]
- †Eutamias lishanensisQiu et al., 2008 – late Miocene of China[4]
- †Eutamias orloviSulimski, 1964 – Pliocene of Poland and Bulgaria[5]
- †Eutamias sihongensisQiu and Long, 1986 – early Miocene of China;[6]subsequently made the type species of a separate genusHeterotamias.[7]
- †Eutamias wimani(Young, 1927) – Pleistocene of China[8]
References
[edit]- ^Musser et al., 2010, p. 22
- ^Piaggo and Spicer, 2001, p. 345
- ^Qiu and Storch, 2000, p. 183; Tyutkova, 2008, p. 437; Wang et al., 2004
- ^Qiu et al., 2008, p. 113
- ^Sulimski, 1964, p. 165; Popov, 2004, p. 448
- ^Qiu et al., 2008, p. 115
- ^Zhu-Ding Qiu (2015)."Revision and supplementary note on Miocene sciurid fauna of Sihong, China".Vertebrata PalAsiatica.53(3): 219–237.
- ^Sulimksi, 1964, p. 168; Qiu et al., 2008, p. 115
Literature cited
[edit]- Bruijn H. de. 1995. Sciuridae, Petauristidae and Eomyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia). Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (A)28:87–102.
- Doukas, C. 2003. The MN4 faunas of Aliveri and Karydia (Greece). Coloquios de Paleontología, Vol. Ext. 1:127–132.
- Mein, P. and Ginsburg, L. 2002. Sur l'âge relatif des différents dépôts karstiques miocènes de La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère). Cahiers scientifiques, Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Lyon 2:7–47.
- Musser, G.G., Durden, L.A., Holden, M.E. and Light, J.E. 2010. Systematic review of endemic Sulawesi squirrels (Rodentia, Sciuridae), with descriptions of new species of associated sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura), and phylogenetic and zoogeographic assessments of sciurid lice. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 339:1–260.
- Piaggio, A. J. and Spicer, G. S. 2001. Molecular phylogeny of the chipmunks inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b and cytochrome oxidase II gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 20:335-350.
- Popov V.V. 2004. Pliocene small mammals (Mammalia, Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Rodentia) from Muselievo (North Bulgaria). Geodiversitas 26(3):403–491.
- Qiu, Z. and Storch, G. 2000. The early Pliocene micromammalian fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha).Senckenbergiana Lethaea80(1):173–229.
- Qiu Z.-D., Zheng S.-H. and Zhang Z.-Q. 2008. Sciurids and zapodids from the late Miocene Bahe Formation, Lantian, Shaanxi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 46(2):111–123.
- Sulimski, A. 1964.Pliocene Lagomorpha and Rodentia from Węże 1 (Poland).Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 9:149–244.
- Tyutkova, L.A. 2008. The Middle Miocene rodents of the Ashut locality (Turgay Depression). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44:437–442.
- Wang X.-M., Qiu Z.-D., Li Q., Tomida, Y., Kimura, Y., Tseng, Z.J. and Wang H.J. 2004. A new Early to Late Miocene fossiliferous region in central Nei Mongol: Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy in Aoerban strata. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 47(2):111–134.