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Geomys bursarius (plains pocket gopher)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae

Taxonomy
Mus bursarius was named by Shaw (1800). It is extant.

It was recombined as Pseudostoma bursarius by Leidy (1860); it was recombined as Geomys bursarius by Hay (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Dalquest and Schultz (1992).

Synonyms
  • Geomys parvidens was named by Gidley (1922). Its type specimen is USNM 10492, a partial skull (The anterior portion of a skull car- rying the incisors and all the cheek teeth except the first and last of the right side), and it is a 3D body fossil.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Geomys bursarius by White and Downs (1961), Kurten and Anderson (1980).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1800Mus bursarius Shaw
1860Pseudostoma bursarius Leidy p. 100
1902Geomys bursarius Hay p. 730
1922Geomys parvidens Gidley p. 122 figs. Plate XXXIV, figures 5, 6
1980Geomys bursarius Kurten and Anderson p. 228
1992Geomys bursarius Dalquest and Schultz

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
—Glires()
—Simplicidentata()
orderRodentiaBowdich 1821
infraorderCastorimorpha
superfamilyGeomyoideaBonaparte 1845
familyGeomyidaeBonaparte 1845
genusGeomysRafinesque 1817
speciesbursarius(Shaw 1800)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Geomys bursarius Shaw 1800 [plains pocket gopher]
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Invalid names: Geomys parvidens Gidley 1922 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: fossorialg
Diet: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2012-05-15 11:11:38
Modified: 2012-05-14 20:11:38
Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Stein 2000

Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (30 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117USA (Illinois) Pseudostoma bursarius (93526)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (Oklahoma) Geomys bursarius (20309)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (Texas) Geomys bursarius (20318 20420 20530 20533)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (Arkansas) Geomys parvidens (20290)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (Nebraska) Geomys bursarius (20143 20347 20348 20375 20500 20501)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (Kansas) Geomys bursarius (20165 20291 20295 20313 20390 20391 20516)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (Nebraska) Geomys bursarius (34382)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Texas) Geomys bursarius (93103)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Oklahoma) Geomys bursarius (74145)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (West Virginia) Geomys bursarius (93332)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Texas) Geomys bursarius (93143)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Illinois) Geomys bursarius (93486)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Indiana) Geomys bursarius (20600)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Texas) Geomys bursarius (20586)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) Geomys bursarius (20617)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0USA (Tennessee) Geomys bursarius (63429)