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Copemys loxodon

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Taxonomy
Hesperomys loxodon was named by Cope (1874). Its type specimen is U.S.N.M. No. 1204, a mandible (mand. dext. with m1-m2), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Eumys loxodon by Cope (1875) and Allen (1877); it was recombined as Peromyscus loxodon by Hay (1902); it was recombined as Copemys loxodon by Wood (1936), Clark et al. (1964), Lindsay (1972), Dalquest et al. (1996).