Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Full reference: A. E. Wood. 1935. Two new genera of cricetid rodents from the Miocene of western United States. American Museum Novitates 789
Parent taxon: Zapodidae according to B. Engesser 1979
See also Barnosky 1986, Black 1958, Green 1992, Korth 1980, Korth 1987, Korth 1994, McKenna and Bell 1997, Reynolds 1991, Skwara 1988, Sutton 1972 and Wood 1935
Sister taxa: Aksyiromys, Banyuesminthus, Elymys, Eozapus, Gobiosminthus, Javazapus, Macrognathomys, Megasminthus, Miosicista, Napaeozapus, Pliozapus, Primisminthus, Shamosminthus, Sicista, Sicistinae, Simiacritomys, Sminthozapus, Tyrannomys, Zapus
Subtaxa: Schaubeumys cartomylos Schaubeumys clivosus Schaubeumys galbreathi Schaubeumys grangeri Schaubeumys sabrae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan collections), United States (36: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (4: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (2: Oregon, South Dakota)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Kazakhstan (1), United States (3: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 49 collections including 51 occurrences
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