Zapus burti Hibbard 1941 (jumping mouse)

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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