Mammalia - Glires - Cricetidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 335286

Full reference: D. A. Guthrie. 1998. Fossil vertebrates from Pleistocene terrestrial deposits on the norhtern Channel Islands, Southern California. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section MP 45:187-192

Belongs to Microtus according to D. A. Guthrie 1998

Sister taxa: Arvicola didelta, Arvicola involuta, Microtus (Stenocranius), Microtus agrestis, Microtus arvalis, Microtus australis, Microtus brecciensis, Microtus bucharicus, Microtus californicus, Microtus chrotorrhinus, Microtus drummondi, Microtus duodecimcostatus, Microtus eleniae, Microtus epimticeps, Microtus guatemalensis, Microtus guentheri, Microtus guildayi, Microtus hibbardi, Microtus irene, Microtus kikuchii, Microtus leucurus, Microtus llanensis, Microtus longicaudus, Microtus mandarinus, Microtus meadensis, Microtus mexicanus, Microtus middendorffi, Microtus miurus, Microtus montanus, Microtus morlani, Microtus oaxacensis, Microtus ochrogaster, Microtus oeconomus, Microtus paroperarius, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Microtus pinetorum, Microtus quasiater, Microtus richardsoni, Microtus rossiaemeridionalis, Microtus umbrosus, Microtus xanthognathus, Pitymys parvulus, Pitymys aratai, Pitymys mcnowni, Pitymys cumberlandensis, Pitymys nemoralis

Type specimen: SBMNH 191, a mandible (jaw fragment with M/1). Its type locality is San Miguel Island V-10, which is in a Pleistocene eolian horizon in California.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore