Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Synonym: Paradipoides Rinker and Hibbard 1952
Parent taxon: Castoroidini according to W. W. Korth 2008
See also Alroy 2002, Korth 2002, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Rinker and Hibbard 1952 and Rybczynski 2007
Sister taxa: Castoroides, Monosaulax, Prodipoides
Subtaxa: Dipoides majori Dipoides rexroadensis Dipoides smithi Dipoides stirtoni Dipoides stovalli Dipoides tanneri Dipoides vallicula Dipoides williamsi Dipoides wilsoni
Ecology: amphibious browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Maryland, Oklahoma, West Virginia collections)
• Blancan of United States (9: Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington)
• Pliocene of China (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (35: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Spain (8), United States (5: Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, Wyoming)
Total: 62 collections including 64 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.