Aplodontiidae is a rodent family that today survives as a single living species, the mountain beaver, found only in North America, though roughly two dozen extinct genera are known from fossils spanning the Oligocene to the present in North America, the Oligocene to Miocene in Asia, and the Oligocene in Europe. The family may be the sister group of the squirrel family Sciuridae. Its one living species is not closely related to true beavers despite the common name.
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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).
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The family Aplodontiidae also known as Aplodontidae, Haplodontiidae or Haploodontini is traditionally classified as the sole extant family of the infraorder Protrogomorpha.
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