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Heliscomys medius
Taxonomy
Heliscomys medius was named by Korth (2007). Its type specimen is CM 76298, a maxilla (maxilla with left P4-M2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Blue Ash Local Fauna, which is in a Whitneyan terrestrial horizon in South Dakota.
Entered
by J. Marcot on 2026-05-05; modified by J. Marcot on 2026-05-04
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2007 | Heliscomys medius Korth pp. 36 - 37 figs. Figure 3A, Table 2 |
| 2019 | Heliscomys medius Korth et al. p. 24 figs. Figure 13A,B |
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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.
†Heliscomys medius Korth 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||