†Zapus burti Hibbard 1941 (jumping mouse)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. The Borchers fauna, a new Pleistocene interglacial fauna from Meade County, Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas Bulletin 38(7):197-220
Belongs to Zapus according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Hibbard 1941
Sister taxa: Zapus adamsi, Zapus hudsonius, Zapus princeps, Zapus rinkeri, Zapus sandersi, Zapus sykesae
Type specimen: Its type locality is Borchers, which is in a Gelasian terrestrial siltstone in the Crooked Creek Formation of Kansas
Ecology: saltatorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Borchers
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