Zenkerella és un gènere de rosegador de la família dels anomalúrids. Conté una sola espècie vivent, Z. insignis, que viu al centre-oest d'Àfrica, i una altra d'extinta, Z. wintoni, que visqué durant el Miocè a l'actual Kenya.[1]
Zenkerella és un gènere de rosegador de la família dels anomalúrids. Conté una sola espècie vivent, Z. insignis, que viu al centre-oest d'Àfrica, i una altra d'extinta, Z. wintoni, que visqué durant el Miocè a l'actual Kenya.
Zenkerella is a genus of rodent, the only member of the family Zenkerellidae. It was formerly classified in Anomaluridae until phylogenetic studies made its distinctiveness clear.[2] While the Anomalurus of the family Anomaluridae has gliding membranes between its forelimb and hindlimb, the Zenkerella has no such adaptation.[3] It is estimated from fossil records that this divergence might have occurred in the middle of the Eocene.
There is a single extant, the Cameroon scaly-tail, and a single fossil representative. The fossil species Zenkerella wintoni is known from a single mandible from Songhor, Kenya dated to the Early Miocene.[4]
Zenkerella is a genus of rodent, the only member of the family Zenkerellidae. It was formerly classified in Anomaluridae until phylogenetic studies made its distinctiveness clear. While the Anomalurus of the family Anomaluridae has gliding membranes between its forelimb and hindlimb, the Zenkerella has no such adaptation. It is estimated from fossil records that this divergence might have occurred in the middle of the Eocene.
There is a single extant, the Cameroon scaly-tail, and a single fossil representative. The fossil species Zenkerella wintoni is known from a single mandible from Songhor, Kenya dated to the Early Miocene.
