†Protansomys gulottai Korth et al. 2022 (mountain beaver)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Full reference: W. W. Korth, C. A. Boyd, J. J. Person and D. Anderson. 2022. Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska. Paludicola 13(4):191-344
Belongs to Protansomys according to W. W. Korth et al. 2022
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SDSM 152447, a partial skull (left dentary fragment with m1 and m2). Its type locality is Arner Ranch ant mounds, which is in a Chadronian/Orellan terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Arner Ranch ant mounds
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