Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Alternative combinations: Eoeumys exiguus, Eumys exiguus, Paracricetodon exiguus
Full reference: A. E. Wood. 1937. The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part II. Rodentia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28(2):155-269
Belongs to Scottimus according to W. W. Korth et al. 2022
See also Alker 1968, Black 1961, Dawson and Black 1970, Korth 1981, Martin 1980, Wood 1937 and Wood 1980
Sister taxa: Scottimus ambiguus, Scottimus kellamorum, Scottimus longiquus, Scottimus lophatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sheep Mountain (Middle Oreodon), which is in an Orellan terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of South Dakota
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (5: South Dakota collections)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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