| Aplodontiidae Temporal range: Oligocene to present
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| Mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Sciuromorpha |
| Infraorder: | Protrogomorpha |
| Family: | Aplodontiidae Brandt, 1855 |
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The family Aplodontiidae 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]
- ^ Wilson and Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Vol. 1 (3 ed.). JHU Press. p. 753. ISBN 9780801882210.
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