Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Full reference: M. C. McKenna. 1960. Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 37(1):1-130
Parent taxon: Uintasoricinae according to G. F. Gunnell 1989
See also McKenna 1960, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Rose et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Choctawius, Uintasorex
Subtaxa: Niptomomys doreenae Niptomomys favorum Niptomomys thelmae
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (27: Colorado, Wyoming collections)
• Clarkforkian of United States (4: Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 32 collections including 33 occurrences
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