Ansomys Qiu 1987 (mountain beaver)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae

Parent taxon: Ansomyinae according to S. Bi et al. 2013

See also Hopkins 2004, Kelly and Korth 2005, Korth 2007 and Korth et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Disallomys, Proansomys, Protansomys

Subtaxa: Ansomys crucifer Ansomys cyanotephrus Ansomys descendens Ansomys hepburnensis Ansomys nevadensis Ansomys orientalis Ansomys shantungensis Ansomys shanwangensis

view classification

Ecology: fossorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of China (2 collections), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), United States (2: Montana, Nevada)

• Arikareean of United States (1: South Dakota)

• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.