The
familyAplodontiidae also known as Aplodontidae, Haplodontiidae or Haploodontini is traditionally classified as the sole extant family of the suborder
Protrogomorpha. It may be the sister family of the
Sciuridae.[1]
There are fossils from the
Oligocene until
Miocene in
Asia, from Oligocene in
Europe and from the Oligocene until the present in
North America, where there is the only living species: the
mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).[2]
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^A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1999. Paludicola 2(3):257.
^Korth, William W. (2009). "Mammals from the Blue Ash local fauna (late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia, Part 4: Family Aplodontidae". Paludicola. 7 (3): 89–106.
^A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1997. Paludicola 1(2):80-90.
^Bi, Shundong, Jin Meng, Sarah McLean, Wenyu Wu, Xijun Ni & Jie Ye. 2013. A New Genus of Aplodontid Rodent (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Oligocene of Northern Junggar Basin, China. Public Library of Science, ONE 8(1): e52625.