| Reference Type | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
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| Title | The skull of Cedromus and a review of the Cedromurinae (Rodentia, Sciuridae) |
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| Journal | Journal of Paleontology |
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| Authors | Korth, William W. | Author |
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| Emry, Robert J. | Author |
| Year | 1991 (November) | Volume | 65 |
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| Issue | 6 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| DOI | doi:10.1017/s0022336000033291Search in ResearchGate |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 415436 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:415436:9 |
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| Full Reference | Korth, William W., Emry, Robert J. (1991) The skull of Cedromus and a review of the Cedromurinae (Rodentia, Sciuridae) Journal of Paleontology, 65 (6) 984-994 doi:10.1017/s0022336000033291 |
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| Plain Text | Korth, William W., Emry, Robert J. (1991) The skull of Cedromus and a review of the Cedromurinae (Rodentia, Sciuridae) Journal of Paleontology, 65 (6) 984-994 doi:10.1017/s0022336000033291 |
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| In | (1991, November) Journal of Paleontology Vol. 65 (6) Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| Abstract/Notes | The problematical rodent genus Cedromus Wilson, previously only known from the Orellan of the Great Plains, has been considered a sciurid by some authors and an aplodontid by others. An excellent collection of complete skulls with associated mandibles from Converse County, Wyoming, has provided evidence that this genus is a sciurid but that it represents a new subfamily distinguished from all other sciurids by a unique zygomasseteric structure that closely approaches myomorphy. A second genus, Oligospermophilus Korth, also from the Orellan of the Great Plains, is allocated to this subfamily.Additional and more complete cranial material of the primitive aplodontid Prosciurus indicates that sciurids and aplodontids share a common ancestry and should be included together at least within the same suborder Sciuromorpha.Three species of Cedromus are recognized, C. wardi Wilson, C. wilsoni n. sp., and Cedromus sp.; the latter extends the known temporal range of the genus into the Whitneyan. |
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