Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Alternative combinations: Leptotomus sciuroides, Paramys sciuroides, Plesiarctomys sciuroides
Synonyms: Ischyrotomus gidleyi Peterson 1919, Reithroparamys gidleyi Peterson 1919
Full reference: W. B. Scott and H. F. Osborn. 1887. Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Fossils of the Uinta Formation, Collected by the Princeton Expedition of 1886. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 24(126):255-264
Belongs to Reithroparamys according to R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth 1989
See also Hay 1902, Korth 1984, Matthew 1910, Peterson 1919, Scott and Osborn 1887 and Wood 1962
Sister taxa: Reithroparamys debequensis, Reithroparamys delicatissimus, Reithroparamys huerfanensis
Type specimens:
- Reithroparamys sciuroides: Its type locality is Kennedy's Hole, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Uinta Formation of Utah
- Ischyrotomus gidleyi: C. M. No. 3461, a mandible (fragment of lower jaw with M1 and M2 in place, fragment of caudal). Its type locality is Kennedy's Hole, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Uinta Formation of Utah.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Kennedy's Hole
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