{{Short description|Extinct genus of rodents}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = 37.2 to 15.97 Ma | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Prosciurus | authority = Matthew, 1910 }}
'''''Prosciurus''''' is an extinct genus of rodents in the family of Aplodontiidae.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=http://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=41450 |access-date=25 February 2024 |website=Paleobiology Database |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41450|title=Fossilworks: Ninamys|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=25 February 2024}}</ref>
== Description == In terms of both their morphology and their relative size, the endocasts of ''P. relictus'' and ''P.'' aff. ''saskatchewanensis'' are both more similar to that of arboreal squirrels than that of later aplodontiids.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bertrand |first=Ornella C. |last2=Amador‐Mughal |first2=Farrah |last3=Lang |first3=Madlen M. |last4=Silcox |first4=Mary T. |date=27 June 2018 |editor-last=Hautier |editor-first=Lionel |title=Virtual endocasts of fossil Sciuroidea: brain size reduction in the evolution of fossoriality |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12378 |journal=Palaeontology |language=en |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=919–948 |doi=10.1111/pala.12378 |issn=0031-0239 |access-date=7 April 2025 |via=Wiley Online Library|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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Category:Aplodontiidae Category:Fossil taxa described in 1910 Category:Prehistoric rodent genera