Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1967. New rodents from the late Cenozoic of Kansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52:115-131
Belongs to Neotoma according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Hibbard 1967
Sister taxa: 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 minutus, Neotoma ozarkensis, Neotoma prefuscipes, Neotoma prelepida, Neotoma pygmaea, Neotoma quadriplicata, Neotoma spelaea, Neotoma stephensi, Neotoma vaughani
Type specimen: Its type locality is Borchers, which is in a Gelasian terrestrial siltstone in the Crooked Creek Formation of Kansas
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Kansas collection)
• Blancan of United States (4: Arizona, California)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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