First Record of Pipestoneomys (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Orellan (Oligocene)

Authors

Christopher M. West, Colby College
William W. Korth, Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology

Date of this Version

1994

Comments

1994. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 21: 147-150. Copyright © 1994 West and Korth.

Abstract

The first record of the problematical rodent Pipestoneomys Donohoe is reported from the Orellan. Previously this genus was known only from the Chadronian, thus its range of occurrence is extended. The single Orellan specimen of Pipestoneomys cannot be readily referred to any previously described species of the genus.