Eopetes
| Eopetes Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | †Eopetes |
| Species: | †E. irtyshensis
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| †Eopetes irtyshensis Li et. al., 2023
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Eopetes is an extinct genus of sciurine sciurid that lived during the Priabonian stage of the Eocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Eopetes irtyshensis fossils are known from the Keziletuogayi Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun; Stidham, Thomas A.; Qin, Chao; Gong, Hao; Zhang, Limin (12 January 2023). "Two large squirrels (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Junggar Basin of northwestern China demonstrate early radiation among squirrels and suggest forested paleoenvironment in the late Eocene of Central Asia". Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. Bibcode:2023FrEaS..1004509L. doi:10.3389/feart.2022.1004509. ISSN 2296-6463.
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