Mammalia - Rodentia - Florentiamyidae
Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82
Parent taxon: Florentiamyidae according to W. W. Korth and C. Branciforte 2007
See also Macdonald 1970 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Ecclesimus, Fanimus, Florentiamys, Hitonkala, Kirkomys
Subtaxa: Sanctimus falkenbachi Sanctimus simonisi Sanctimus stouti Sanctimus stuartae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (3: South Dakota collections)
• Harrisonian of United States (3: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (4: Nebraska, Wyoming)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences
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