Class Mammalia
Order Rodentia
Family Cricetidae
Subfamily Neotominae
Repomys is a genus of more or less Neotoma-size rodents with rather hypsodont dentition. May (1981) diagnosed the genus as follows:
Slender, hypsodont cheek teeth; F-shaped M3 with a single anterolingual reentrant and a posterior enamel lake present or absent; rounded keyhole-shaped M3 with an anterolingual reentrant that is lost with wear, and with a short anterolabial cingulum.
Sites.
Tecopa Lake Beds (Woodburne and Whistler 1991).
Literature. May 1981; Woodburne and Whistler 1991.
Late Blancan: 111 Ranch (Morgan and White 2005).
Literature. Morgan and White 2005.
Last Update: 17 Jul 2014