Plesispermophilus argoviensis Stehlin and Schaub 1951 (mountain beaver)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae

Belongs to Plesispermophilus according to Stehlin and Schaub 1951

Sister taxa: Plesispermophilus angustidens, Plesispermophilus ernii, Plesispermophilus macrodon

Type specimen: UM 2890, a tooth

Ecology: fossorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Kuttingen (Oligocene of Switzerland)

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