Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative combination: Arctomys minor
Full reference: L. Kellogg. 1910. Rodent fauna of the late Tertiary beds at Virgin Valley and Thousand Creek, Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(29):421-437
Belongs to Marmota according to M. D. Bryant 1945
See also Black 1963
Sister taxa: Marmota arizonae, Marmota broweri, Marmota caligata, Marmota flaviventris, Marmota korthi, Marmota marmota, Marmota monax, Marmota nevadensis, Marmota olympus, Marmota vancouverensis, Lagomys sardus, Arctomys vetus, Arctomys primigenia, Arctomys tortus
Type specimen: UCMP 12538, a partial skull ( Part of a left maxilla with P3 and, P4; part of a right mandibular parts of upper and lower incisors; right M2 and M;3 in a fragment of the maxilla; M2 and M3 ). Its type locality is Thousand Creek Formation, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Thousand Creek Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution: found only at Thousand Creek Formation
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