Paenemarmota

Paenemarmota Temporal range: Miocene to Early Pleistocene, 10.3–1.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Tribe:	Marmotini
Genus:	†Paenemarmota Hibbert & Schultz 1948
Species
P. barbouri P. mexicana P. sawrockensis

Paenemarmota is an extinct genus of ground squirrel from North America. Fossils are known from the Blancan and Hemphillian age from localities in the United States (Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Arizona) and Mexico. At around the size of a beaver, Paenemarmota is the largest known member of the squirrel family.^[1]