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Miopetaurista
Extinct genus of rodents From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Miopetaurista is an extinct genus of flying squirrels in the family Sciuridae. Fossils of this genus have been found from the Miocene and Pliocene of Europe (France, Germany[1]), Asia (China[2]), and North America (Florida,[3][4] Tennessee[5][6][7]).
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Description
A partial skeleton from the Miocene of Spain indicates that Miopetaurista very closely resembles living Petaurista giant flying squirrels in overall anatomy and therefore probably ecology.[3]
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