Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative combinations: Arctomys nevadensis, Paenemarmota nevadensis
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, Kelly 2000 and Martin 1998
Sister taxa: Marmota arizonae, Marmota broweri, Marmota caligata, Marmota flaviventris, Marmota korthi, Marmota marmota, Marmota minor, Marmota monax, Marmota olympus, Marmota vancouverensis, Arctomys vetus, Arctomys tortus, Arctomys primigenia, Lagomys sardus
Type specimen: UCMP 12506, a mandible (The anterior part of a left mandibular ramus with a broken lower incisor; p4 and m1 intact.). 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:
• Hemphillian of United States (2: Nebraska, Nevada collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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