Scottimus lophatus Wood 1937 (mouse)

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

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