Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Full reference: W. W. Korth. 1989. Aplodontid Rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene (Orellan and Whitneyan) Brule Formation, Nebraska. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):400-414
Parent taxon: Prosciurinae according to W. W. Korth et al. 2022
See also Korth 1989, Korth 2014 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Costepeiromys, Ephemeromys, Oropyctis, Pelycomys, Pseudallomys
Subtaxa: Campestrallomys dawsonae Campestrallomys siouxensis
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (2: Nebraska, Oregon collections)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (10: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 14 collections including 15 occurrences
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