Paromomys depressidens Gidley, 1923

Lofgren, Donald, Mckenna, Malcolm, Honey, James, Nydam, Randall, Wheaton, Christine, Yokote, Bryan, Henn, Lexington, Hanlon, Whitney, Manning, Stephen & Mcgee, Carter, 2014, New records of eutherian mammals from the Goler Formation (Tiffanian, Paleocene) of California and their biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications, American Museum Novitates 2014 (3797), pp. 1-60 : 9

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3797.1

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scientific name

Paromomys depressidens Gidley, 1923
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Paromomys depressidens Gidley, 1923

HOLOTYPE: USNM 9546, part of maxilla with P4–M3 from Gidley Quarry, Fort Union Formation, Montana. REFERRED SPECIMEN: RAM 6426, right P4 from RAM locality V94014 View Materials , member 4a. DISCUSSION: This isolated tooth was described and figured by Lofgren et al. (2008: fig. 4). RAM 6426 closely resembles P4s of Paromomys from Swain Quarry that are inseparable from those of P. depressidens from Gidley Quarry ( Rigby, 1980), the type locality.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Paromomyidae

Genus

Paromomys

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