FHSM VP-14068
Geomys tyrioni (Martin, R.A., 2016)

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Taxonomy

Specimen Info

Kingdom
Animalia
Genus
Geomys
Phylum
Chordata
Species
tyrioni
Class
Mammalia
Author
Martin, R.A.
Order
Rodentia
Year
2016
Family
Geomyidae
Collected by
Martin, R.A.
Date Collected
1997-07-24
Identified By
Hurt, R.T.
Date Identified
1999-06-22
Type
Number of Pieces
1
Description
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Locality

Lithostratigraphy

Country
United States of America
State/Province
Kansas
County
Meade
Remarks
Information withheld. Please contact FHSM for detailed locality information
Group
Meade
Formation
Crooked Creek
Member
Atwater
Zone
Bed
Local Fauna
Short Haul

Chronostratigraphy

Biostratigraphy

Earliest Era
Cenozoic
Latest Era
Cenozoic
Earliest Period
Quaternary
Latest Period
Quaternary
Earliest Epoch
Pleistocene
Latest Epoch
Pleistocene
Earliest Age
Calabrian
Latest Age
Middle
Lowest Zone
Irvingtonian
Highest Zone
Irvingtonian

Publications (2 of 2)

Martin, R.A., 2016. Geomys tyrioni, a new species of early Pleistocene dwarf pocket gopher from the Meade Basin of southwestern Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy, 97:949-959
Martin, R.A., 2003. Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene rodents from the northern Borchers Badlands (Meade County, Kansas), with comments on the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary in the Meade Basin. Journal of Paleontology, 77:985-1001