Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Alternative combination: Perognathoides cuyamensis
Full reference: A. E. Wood. 1937. The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part II. Rodentia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28(2):155-269
Belongs to Cupidinimus according to A. D. Barnosky 1986
See also Whistler 1984 and Wood 1937
Sister taxa: Cupidinimus avawatzensis, Cupidinimus bidahochiensis, Cupidinimus boronensis, Cupidinimus halli, Cupidinimus lindsayi, Cupidinimus magnus, Cupidinimus nebraskensis, Cupidinimus prattensis, Cupidinimus robinsoni, Cupidinimus smaragdinus, Cupidinimus tertius, Cupidinimus whitlocki, Perognathoides eurekensis, Perognathoides kleinfelderi, Perognathoides quartus
Ecology: ground dwelling granivore-browser
Distribution: found only at Cedar Mountain (Miocene of Nevada)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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