Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys — John Shaqi
Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus BaiomysPackard, Robert L. (Robert Lewis)
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Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys
Packard, Robert L. (Robert Lewis)
Mice
_Baiomys rexroadi_ Hibbard, Amer. Midland Nat., 26:351, September,
1941; Hibbard, Contrib. Mus. Paleo., Univ. Michigan, 8(2):145,
June 29, 1950 (part); Hibbard, Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts
and Letters, 38:403, April 27, 1953.
_Type._--No. 4670, Univ. Kansas; left mandibular ramus bearing m1-m3,
and incisor; Rexroad fauna, Locality no. 2, Upper Pliocene, Meade
County, Kansas.
_Referred material._--Univ. of Michigan Nos. 24840, 24851, 27493, 27496,
27501, 28862-28867.
_Diagnosis._--Ramus medium in size for the genus; incisors small,
prooedont; anterior median fold of m1 slight; cingulum of all molars
poorly developed; average and external measurements of lower molar row
of seven specimens are, 2.7 (2.6-3.0).
_Comparisons._--For comparisons with _B. sawrockensis_ and _B. minimus_,
see accounts of those species. From _B. kolbi_, _B. rexroadi_ differs
in: over-all size of mandibular ramus, incisors, and molars smaller;
anterior median fold of m1 present, though poorly developed.
From _B. brachygnathus_, _B. rexroadi_ differs in: over-all size of
mandibular ramus smaller; m3 larger; posterior cusps (hypoconid and
entoconid) elongated; diastema shorter, less acutely recurved; incisors
less prooedont; cingular ridges of m1 and m2 less well-developed.
From _B. musculus_, _B. rexroadi_ differs in: over-all size of
mandibular ramus less; cingular ridges of m1 and m2 less well-developed;
incisors smaller, more prooedont; molars less depressed.
From _B. taylori_, _B. rexroadi_ differs in: m3 more triangular,
posterior part narrower; mental foramen closer to anterior root of m1;
masseteric ridge closer to alveolus of m1; incisor shorter, more
prooedont; molars more depressed.
_Remarks._--Two maxillary tooth-rows and associated parts were studied.
On one of these specimens, the M2 has a well-developed mesostyle; the
anterior median fold of M1 is also well-developed. The other specimen
possesses a low cingular ridge (enteroloph) between the protocone and
the hypocone, a reduced cingular ridge (mesoloph) between the paracone
and metacone of M1. On the second molar, M2, a mesostyle joins with the
mesoloph somewhat in the fashion indicated by Hooper (1957:9, encircled
number 2).
=Baiomys kolbi= Hibbard
_Baiomys kolbi_ Hibbard, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 55:201, June 18,
1952; Hibbard, Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts and Letters, 38:403,
April 27, 1953.
_Type._--No. 24846, Univ. Michigan; right mandibular ramus bearing m1-m3
and incisor; Fox Canyon, upper Pliocene, Rexroad formation, Rexroad
fauna, Univ. Michigan Locality K1-47, sec. 35, T. 34 S, R. 30 W, XI
Ranch, Meade County, Kansas.
_Referred material._--Univ. Michigan Nos. 24845-24848, 27494, 27497,
27499, 28566, 28861, 28878, 28880-28882, 28884, 28886.
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