Genus: Parikimys WILSON, DECHESNE & ANDERSON, 2010
Etymology: Caddoan, Pairki, "horn," and is the likely derivation of the name of the Native American Pawnee Nation, referring to the upright and curved scalplock hairstyle of the Pawnee men: we use it to honor the tribe as well as the National Grassland, and Latin, mys, "mouse or small gnawing mammal."

Species: carpenteri WILSON, DECHESNE & ANDERSON, 2010
Etymology: In honor of the DMNS vertebrate paleontologist, Ken Carpenter, whose initial field work in the sparse, non-marine Cretaceous exposures of Weld County inspired this project.

Holotype: DMNH 52224

Locality: Ingrid’s Jaw, DMNH loc. 3322 (=UWBM loc. C1098) is an irregular, weathered isolated outcrop of ~30 m2 immediately south of Weld County Road 122, Pawnee National Grasslands, Cheyenne basin, Weld County, Colorado.

Horizon: Upper Laramie Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Edmontonian or early Lancian Age, upper Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Left dentary fragment with p4-m2 and p3 alveolus.

Referred material:

DONOHUE, WILSON, & BREITHAUPT, 2013

Locality: UCMP V-84215 (= UW V-79032), Black Butte Station fossil localitys, eastern flank fo the Rock Springs uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, upper Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UW 20052: Isolated right p4.

UW 20135, 20137: Isolated right m1s.

UW 15191: Isolated left m1.

 

Locality: Dino Ray (UW loc. V-79033), Black Butte Station fossil localitys, eastern flank of the Rock Springs uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, upper Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UW 20162: Isoalted right p4.