Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Alternative combination: Grangerimus dakotensis
Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238
Belongs to Tenudomys according to W. W. Korth 1993
See also Gawne 1975, Korth 1989, Macdonald 1963 and Rensberger 1973
Sister taxa: Tenudomys basilaris, Tenudomys bodei, Tenudomys macdonaldi, Tenudomys ridgeviewensis, Tenudomys titanus
Type specimen: SDSM 54248, a partial skull (partial cranium, with P4-M3). Its type locality is Sharps (SDSM V-541), which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Sharps Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: fossorial browser
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: South Dakota collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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