Prosigmodon ferrusquiai Carranza-Castañeda and Walton 1992 (mouse)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Full reference: O. Carranza-Castañeda and A. H. Walton. 1992. Cricetid rodents from the Rancho El Ocote fauna, late Hemphillian (Pliocene), State of Guanajuato. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geologia, Revista 10(1):71-93

Belongs to Prosigmodon according to O. Carranza-Castañeda and A. H. Walton 1992

Sister taxa: Prosigmodon chihuahuensis, Prosigmodon holocuspis, Prosigmodon oroscoi, Prosigmodon tecolotum

Type specimen: IGCU 7254, a tooth (right M1). Its type locality is Rancho El Ocote (Medial), which is in a Hemphillian channel claystone/sandstone in the Rancho Viejo Beds Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Rancho El Ocote (Medial)

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