Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Full reference: L. L. Jacobs and E. H. Lindsay. 1981. Prosigmodon oroscoi, a New Sigmodont Rodent from the Late Tertiary of Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 55(2):425-430
Parent taxon: Sigmodontini according to A. Pacheco Castro et al. 2019
See also Carranza-Castañeda and Walton 1992, D'Elía 2003, Jacobs and Lindsay 1981 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxon: Sigmodon
Subtaxa: Prosigmodon chihuahuensis Prosigmodon ferrusquiai Prosigmodon holocuspis Prosigmodon oroscoi Prosigmodon tecolotum
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Blancan of Mexico (3 collections), United States (3: Arizona, New Mexico)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (4), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 11 collections including 12 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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