Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard and E. S. Riggs. 1949. Upper Pliocene Vertebrates From Keefe Canyon, Meade County, Kansas. Geological Society America Bulletin 60(5):829-860
Belongs to Dipoides according to R. A. Martin 1969
See also Hibbard and Riggs 1949, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Shotwell 1955
Sister taxa: Dipoides majori, Dipoides smithi, Dipoides stirtoni, Dipoides stovalli, Dipoides tanneri, Dipoides vallicula, Dipoides williamsi, Dipoides wilsoni
Type specimen: Its type locality is Keefe Canyon, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas
Ecology: amphibious browser
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (5: Kansas, Nebraska, Washington collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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