Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1954. A New Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna From Oklahoma. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 39:339-359
Parent taxon: Geomyidae according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Hibbard 1954 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Cratogeomys, Geomyinae, Geomys, Microdipodops, Mojavemys, Nerterogeomys, Orthogeomys, Pappogeomys, Phelosaccomys, Pleurolicus, Pliosaccomys, Progeomys, Reynoldsomys, Tenudomys, Thomomys, Zygogeomys
Subtaxa: Pliogeomys buisi Pliogeomys parvus Pliogeomys russelli
Type: Pliogeomys buisi
Ecology: fossorial browser
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (7: Idaho collections)
• Hemphillian of United States (5: Nebraska, Oklahoma)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
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