Zenkerella (rodent)

Zenkerella is a genus of rodent, the only member of the family Zenkerellidae. It was formerly classified in Anomaluridae until phylogenetic studies made its distinctiveness clear.^[2] While the Anomalurus of the family Anomaluridae has gliding membranes between its forelimb and hindlimb, the Zenkerella has no such adaptation.^[3] It is estimated from fossil records that this divergence might have occurred in the middle of the Eocene.

Zenkerella Temporal range: Early Miocene to recent[1] 20–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Anomaluromorpha
Family:	Zenkerellidae Matschie, 1898
Genus:	Zenkerella Matschie, 1898
Type species
Zenkerella insignis Matschie, 1898
Species
Zenkerella insignis †Zenkerella wintoni

There is a single extant, the Cameroon scaly-tail, and a single fossil representative. The fossil species Zenkerella wintoni is known from a single mandible from Songhor, Kenya dated to the Early Miocene.^[4]