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Squirrels are prolific collectors—even ones that lived approximately 35 million years ago.
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- Title: Early squirrel
- Location: Natrona County, Wyoming, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 27 cm x 10 cm x 24 cm
- Type: Skeleton
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
- USNM Catalog Number(s): PAL243981
- Scientific Name: <i>Douglassciurus jeffersoni</i>
- Photo Credit: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Historic Period: Lived approximately 35 million years ago
- Geologic Age: Cenozoic - Paleogene - Eocene - Chadronian
- Field: Paleobiology
- Date Collected: 1975
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