Onychomys gidleyi Hibbard 1941 (grasshopper mouse)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. Mammals of the Rexroad Fauna From the Upper Pliocene of Southwestern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 44

Belongs to Onychomys according to C. W. Hibbard 1941

See also Kurten and Anderson 1980

Sister taxa: Onychomys bensoni, Onychomys hollisteri, Onychomys jinglebobensis, Onychomys larrabeei, Onychomys leucogaster, Onychomys martini, Onychomys pedroensis, Onychomys torridus

Type specimen: KUMVP 4670, a mandible (sin with i1, m1-m3). Its type locality is Rexroad KU Locality 3, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Blancan of United States (7: California, Kansas, Texas collections)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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