Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Full reference: W. W. Korth. 1992. Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 61(2):69-132
Parent taxon: Promylagaulinae according to X. Lu et al. 2016
See also Korth 1992 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Argaleogaulus, Irtyshogaulus, Lamugaulus, Promylagaulus
Subtaxa: Trilaccogaulus lemhiensis Trilaccogaulus montanensis Trilaccogaulus ovatus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Harrisonian of United States (2: Nebraska collections)
• Arikareean of United States (2: Idaho, Montana)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (3: South Dakota)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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