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Castor

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Castor most commonly refers to:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3240758	https://www.gbif.org/species/3240758
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41539	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41539

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Castoridae : Castor

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
superfamily	Castoroidea	Gray 1821
family	Castoridae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Castorinae
genus	Castor	Linnæus 1758

Common Name

beaver

Scientific Name

Castor Linnaeus, 1758

Name Published In

Linnæus, Carolus. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Vol. Tomus I, Editio decima, reformata: i-ii, 1-824.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Castor	genus	belongs to Glires	stated without evidence	Linnaeus, 1758
Castor	genus	belongs to Palmipeda	stated without evidence	Illiger, 1811
Castor	genus	belongs to Castorina	stated without evidence	Gray, 1825
Castor	genus	belongs to Rodentia	stated without evidence	Leidy, 1860
Castor	genus	belongs to Castoridae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Castor	genus	belongs to Castoridae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Castor	genus	belongs to Castorinae	stated with evidence	Rybczynski, 2007
Castor	genus	belongs to Castoridae	stated without evidence	Albright et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 7.2 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

browser (based on Castoridae)

Ecospace Comments

an expert swimmer

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Common Name(s)

Beavers, Beaver

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Castor (Eucastor) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Castor anderssoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Castor californicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	10.3 Ma Miocene	1.80 Ma Pleistocene
Castor canadensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	American Beaver	62	4.90 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Castor fiber species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Eurasian Beaver	62	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Castor jaegeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Castor peninsulatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Castor veterior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Chalicomys anderssoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Fiber Dumeril, 1806	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Castoridae : *Fiber*
Mamcastorus Herrera, 1899	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Castoridae : *Mamcastorus*
Aulacodon Kaup, 1832	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Castoridae : *Aulacodon*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1758	Castor Linnaeus p. 58
1811	Castor Illiger p. 89
1825	Castor Gray p. 341
1860	Castor Leidy p. 111
1902	Castor Hay p. 721
1967	Castor Wilson p. 209

Year	Name and Author
1980	Castor Kurten and Anderson p. 237
1989	Castor Shoshani et al. p. 436
1997	Castor McKenna and Bell
2007	Castor Rybczynski p. 7
2019	Castor Albright et al. p. 158

References

Linnaeus C. , Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1, 1-824 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542

Illiger C. , Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium

Gray J. E. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe, Annals of Philosophy, new series 10, 337-344

Leidy J. Description of Vertebrate Fossils, Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South-Carolina, 99-122

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Wilson R. L. (1967) The Pleistocene vertebrates of Michigan, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52, 197-234

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

Shoshani J., Fisher D. C., et al (1989) The Shelton Mastodon Site: Multidisciplinary study of a late Pleistocene (Twocreekan) locality in Southeastern Michigan, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27 14, 393-436

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Rybczynski N. (2007) Castorid phylogenetics: implications for the evolution of swimming and tree-exploitation in beavers, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 14 1, 1-35

Albright L. B., Sanders A. E., et al (2019) Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57 2, 77-236

De Jong, Y.; Verbeek, M.; Michelsen, V.; Bjørn, P. D. P.; Los, W.; Steeman, F.; Bailly, N.; Basire, C.; Chylarecki, P.; Stloukal, E.; Hagedorn, G.; Wetzel, F.; Glöckler, F.; Kroupa, A.; Korb, G.; Hoffmann, A.; Häuser, C.; Kohlbecker, A.; Müller, A.; Güntsch, A.; Stoev, P.; Penev, L. (2014). Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal. 2: e4034. - via World Register of Marine Species

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hall, R. (2004) Däggdjur - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 75 Twenty-seven generic names of Protozoa, Vermes, Pisces, Reptilia and Mammalia included in the Official List of Zoological Names.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(1), 35-37 (1922) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. 10th edition. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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