Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Full reference: M. C. McKenna. 1960. Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 37(1):1-130
Belongs to Niptomomys according to T. M. Bown and P. D. Gingerich 1972
See also McKenna 1960 and Rose et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Niptomomys favorum, Niptomomys thelmae
Type specimen: Its type locality is Kent Quarry, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Wasatch Formation of Colorado
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (18: Colorado, Wyoming collections)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of United States (4: Wyoming)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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