†Rhizomys troglodytes Matthew and Granger 1923 (greater bamboo rat)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Spalacidae
Full reference: W.D. Matthew and W.T. Granger. 1923. New fossil mammals from the Pliocene of Sze-chuan, China. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 48(17):564-598
Belongs to Rhizomys according to W.D. Matthew and W.T. Granger 1923
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 18408, a skull (skull and jaws). Its type locality is Yen-ching-kao, which is in a Pleistocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in China.
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Vietnam (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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