Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Alternative combination: Reithroparamys ctenodactylops
Full reference: W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71
Belongs to Tuscahomys according to S. G. Strait et al. 2016
See also Dawson and Beard 2007 and Korth 1984
Sister taxa: Tuscahomys major, Tuscahomys medius, Tuscahomys minor, Tuscahomys walshi, Tuscahomys worlandensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is UW locality V-60008, which is in an Eocene fluvial siliciclastic in the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (4: Wyoming collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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