Cylindrodon Douglass 1902 (rodent)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae

Full reference: E. Douglass. 1902. Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 20:237-279

Parent taxon: Cylindrodontidae according to Douglass 1901

See also Korth et al. 2022, Lambe 1908, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Ostrander 1983

Sister taxa: Anomoemys, Ardynomys, Dawsonomys, Gobiocylindrodon, Jaywilsonomys, Orientocylindrodon, Pareumys, Proardynomys, Pseudocylindrodon, Sespemys, Siouxlindrodon, Tuscahomys

Subtaxa: Cylindrodon collinus Cylindrodon fontis Cylindrodon natronensis Cylindrodon nebraskensis Cylindrodon solarborus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska collection)

• Eocene of Canada (4: Saskatchewan), United States (29: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 34 collections including 35 occurrences

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