Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Full reference: J. K. Rigby, Jr. 1980. Swain Quarry of the Fort Union Formation, Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), Carbon County, Wyoming: geologic setting and mammalian fauna. Evolutionary Monographs 3:1-178
Parent taxon: Neoplagiaulacidae according to M. D. Middleton and E. W. Dewar 2004
See also Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Rigby 1980
Sister taxa: Cernaysia, Ectypodus, Filikomys, Krauseia, Mesodma, Mesodmops, Mimetodon, Neoplagiaulax, Nidimys, Parectypodus, Parikimys, Xanclomys
Subtaxa: Xyronomys robinsoni Xyronomys swainae
Type: Xyronomys swainae
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Canada (3: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), United States (3: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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