†Zapus rinkeri Hibbard 1951 (jumping mouse)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1951. A new jumping mouse from the upper Pliocene of Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 32(3)
Belongs to Zapus according to C. W. Hibbard 1951
See also Kurten and Anderson 1980
Sister taxa: Zapus burti, Zapus hudsonius, Zapus princeps, Zapus sandersi, Zapus sykesae
Type specimen: UMMP 27036, a mandible (right ramus bearing m1-m3, adult). Its type locality is Fox Canyon, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas.
Ecology: saltatorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Fox Canyon
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