Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Synonym: Grangerimus Wood 1936
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1878. On some of the characters of the Miocene fauna of Oregon. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 18(102):63-78
Parent taxon: Geomyidae according to M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell 1997
See also Cope 1878, Cope 1879, Gawne 1975, Hay 1902, Korth 1996, Rensberger 1973, Wahlert and Souza 1988 and Wood 1936
Sister taxa: Cratogeomys, Geomyinae, Geomys, Microdipodops, Mojavemys, Nerterogeomys, Orthogeomys, Pappogeomys, Phelosaccomys, Pliogeomys, Pliosaccomys, Progeomys, Reynoldsomys, Tenudomys, Thomomys, Zygogeomys
Subtaxa: Pleurolicus compressus Pleurolicus dakotensis Pleurolicus exiguus Pleurolicus hemingfordensis Pleurolicus mensae Pleurolicus sellardsi Pleurolicus sulcifrons
Type: Pleurolicus sulcifrons
Ecology: fossorial browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (4: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico collections)
• Harrisonian of United States (3: Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas)
• Arikareean of United States (4: Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Oligocene of United States (5: Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)
Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence
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