Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Alternative combination: Grangerimus harkseni
Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82
Belongs to Schizodontomys according to J. E. Storer 2002
See also Gawne 1975, Korth 1997, Macdonald 1970 and Rensberger 1973
Sister taxa: Schizodontomys amnicolus, Schizodontomys bareia, Schizodontomys greeni, Schizodontomys sulcidens
Type specimen: Its type locality is Rosebud (LACM 1830), which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Rosebud Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling granivore-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (7: South Dakota, Wyoming collections)
• Harrisonian of United States (3: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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