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Sigmodon curtisi
Taxonomy
Sigmodon curtisi was named by Gidley (1922). Its type specimen is USNM 10510, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1922 | Sigmodon curtisi Gidley |
1980 | Sigmodon curtisi Kurten and Anderson p. 251 |
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†Sigmodon curtisi Gidley 1922
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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J. W. Gidley 1922 | Length of cheek-tooth series 7 millimeters; about the size of S. hispidus arizonae, which it seems to resemble more nearly, but it differs from that as well as the other living species in the more open valleys of the reentrant angles, the more compressed lophs, the less hypsodont condition of the cheek teeth, the relatively deeper posterior inner reentrant valley of p4 and m1, and especially the form and proportions of the cusps of the last lower molar, which is relatively larger, with the hinder cusp relatively broader and fuller than in the living species. A feature that is characteristic of this and the species described below [Sigmodon minor] and is not observed in any of the living species is noted in the last molar, in which the great extension and flattening of the inner or lingual wall of the posterior lobe forms a sharp right angle with the posterior wall of the reentrant angle on that side. |
Measurements
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References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Samuels and Van Valkenburgh 2008, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Irvingtonian or 2.58800 to 0.30000 Ma
Collections (13 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Blancan | USA (Arizona) | Sigmodon curtisi (19646 19650 20303) | |
Blancan | Mexico (Sonora) | Sigmodon curtisi (20322) | |
Blancan | USA (Colorado) | Sigmodon curtisi (19744) | |
Gelasian | USA (Florida) | Sigmodon curtisi (20384) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Kansas) | Sigmodon curtisi (20147) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Texas) | Sigmodon curtisi (20164 20337) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Arizona) | Sigmodon curtisi (20341 20344) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Sigmodon curtisi (20308 20385) |