Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 26(2):337-368
Parent taxon: Cricetinae according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Hibbard 1941 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Apocricetus, Collimys, Cricetini, Cricetinus, Cricetulodon, Cricetulus, Democricetodon, Leidymini, Mesocricetus, Neacomys, Neocricetodon, Peromyscini, Phodopus, Rotundomys
Subtaxa: Symmetrodontomys beckensis Symmetrodontomys daamsi Symmetrodontomys simplicidens
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (7: Kansas, Texas collections)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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