Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. The Borchers fauna, a new Pleistocene interglacial fauna from Meade County, Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas Bulletin 38(7):197-220
Belongs to Reithrodontomys according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980
See also Hibbard 1941
Sister taxa: Reithrodontomys fulvescens, Reithrodontomys galushai, Reithrodontomys humulis, Reithrodontomys megalotis, Reithrodontomys montanus, Reithrodontomys moorei, Reithrodontomys rexroadensis, Reithrodontomys wetmorei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Borchers, which is in a Gelasian terrestrial siltstone in the Crooked Creek Formation of Kansas
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Kansas collection)
• Blancan of United States (3: Kansas, Nebraska)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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