Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
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 Scottimus according to W. W. Korth et al. 2022
See also Korth 2014 and Wood 1937
Sister taxa: Scottimus ambiguus, Scottimus exiguus, Scottimus kellamorum, Scottimus longiquus
Type specimen: Its type locality is UNSM Mo-103 (Whitney B), which is in a Whitneyan terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of Nebraska
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (4: Nebraska, South Dakota collections)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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