FHSM VP-14130
Sigmodon minor (Gidley, 1922)

Taxonomy

Specimen Info

Kingdom
Animalia
Genus
Sigmodon
Phylum
Chordata
Species
minor
Class
Mammalia
Author
Gidley
Order
Rodentia
Year
1922
Family
Cricetidae
Collected by
Martin, R.A.
Date Collected
1997-07-24
Identified By
Hurt, R.T.
Date Identified
1999-06-21
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
Formation
Ballard
Member
Missler
Zone
Bed
Local Fauna
Margaret 1

Chronostratigraphy

Biostratigraphy

Earliest Era
Cenozoic
Latest Era
Cenozoic
Earliest Period
Neogene
Latest Period
Neogene
Earliest Epoch
Pliocene
Latest Epoch
Pliocene
Earliest Age
Latest Age
Lowest Zone
Blancan
Highest Zone
Blancan

Publications (2 of 2)

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
Pelaez-Campomanes, P., Martin, R.A. 2005. The Pliocene and Pleistocene history of cotton rats in the Meade Basin of southwestern Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy, 86:475-494