Meaning of sciuroid | Babel Free

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Any rodent from the family Sciuridae.

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“The loss of the internal carotid artery in the sciuroids seems likewise to go back to the early Tertiary. The oldest known sciuroid, Protosciurus (table XII) , stems from the Middle Oligocene [BLACK, 1963) , and the earliest sciuroids presumably evolved from central members of the paramyid group around the transition between the Eocene and Oligocene [WOOD, 1959].”

“It may also be noted that the fossil record stretches back no farther than the Oligocene on macroscelidoid elephant shrews (Patterson, 1965), also on sciuroids (Black, 1963), and no farther than the Miocene on lorisoids (Walker, 1974) .”

“These findings are contrary to the opinion that sciuroids are relatively archaic forms, based on their cuspidate dentition.”

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