Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontiidae
Full reference: W. W. Korth. 1989. Aplodontid Rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene (Orellan and Whitneyan) Brule Formation, Nebraska. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):400-414
Parent taxon: Prosciurinae according to W. W. Korth et al. 2022
See also Korth 1989, Korth 2014 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Altasciurus, Costepeiromys, Downsimus, Ephemeromys, Haplomys, Oropyctis, Pelycomys, Pseudallomys, Spurimus
Subtaxa: Campestrallomys dawsonae Campestrallomys siouxensis
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (2: Nebraska, Oregon collections)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (11: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 15 collections including 17 occurrences
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