Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. The Borchers fauna, a new Pleistocene interglacial fauna from Meade County, Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas Bulletin 38(7):197-220
Belongs to Perognathus according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Hibbard 1941
Sister taxa: Perognathus ancenensis, Perognathus brevidens, Perognathus carpenteri, Perognathus coquorum, Perognathus dunklei, Perognathus flavescens, Perognathus flavus, Perognathus furlongi, Perognathus gidleyi, Perognathus henryredfieldi, Perognathus huastecensis, Perognathus inornatus, Perognathus longimembris, Perognathus maldei, Perognathus mclaughlini, Perognathus merriami, Perognathus minutus, Perognathus parvus, Perognathus rexroadensis, Perognathus saskatchewanensis, Perognathus stevei, Perognathus strigipredus, Perognathus trojectioansrum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Borchers, which is in a Gelasian terrestrial siltstone in the Crooked Creek Formation of Kansas
Ecology: ground dwelling granivore-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Kansas, Nebraska collections)
• Blancan of United States (9: Arizona, Kansas, Texas)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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