Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Parent taxon: Neotomina according to R. A. Martin et al. 2023
See also Alroy 2002, Baskin 1978, Carranza-Castañeda and Walton 1992, Eshelman et al. 2025, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lindsay 2008, Martin and Zakrzewski 2019, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Schultz and Howard 1935
Sister taxa: Hodomys, Tsaphanomys, Xenomys
Subtaxa: Neotoma (Parahodomys) Neotoma (Paraneotoma) Neotoma albigula Neotoma amplidonta Neotoma cinerea Neotoma findleyi Neotoma floridana Neotoma fossilis Neotoma fuscipes Neotoma lepida Neotoma leucodon Neotoma leucopetrica Neotoma mexicana Neotoma micropus Neotoma ozarkensis Neotoma prefuscipes Neotoma prelepida Neotoma pygmaea Neotoma quadriplicata Neotoma spelaea Neotoma stephensi
Type: Mus floridanus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Alberta collection), Mexico (13), United States (207: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Blancan of Mexico (2), United States (64: Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (6: California, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas)
Total: 295 collections including 341 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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