Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae

Alternative combination: Geomys smithi

Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1967. New rodents from the late Cenozoic of Kansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52:115-131

Belongs to Nerterogeomys according to W. W. Korth 1995

See also Czaplewski 1990, Hibbard 1967, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Tomida 1987

Sister taxa: Nerterogeomys anzensis, Nerterogeomys garbanii, Nerterogeomys minor, Nerterogeomys paenebursarius, Nerterogeomys persimilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fox Canyon, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas

Ecology: fossorial browser

Distribution: found only at Fox Canyon

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