Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1937. An Upper Pliocene Fauna from Meade County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 40:239-265
Belongs to Sigmodon according to C. W. Hibbard 1937
See also Albright 1999, Harrison 1978, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Martin 1974
Sister taxa: Sigmodon alstoni, Sigmodon bakeri, Sigmodon chonensis, Sigmodon curtisi, Sigmodon hispidus, Sigmodon hudspethensis, Sigmodon libitinus, Sigmodon lindsayi, Sigmodon minor, Sigmodon ochrognathus
Type specimen: KUMVP 3887, a mandible (portion of left mandible with incisor, M1, M2 and M3; angle, condyle, and coronoid process missing). Its type locality is Rexroad KU Locality 2, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Rexroad KU Locality 2
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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