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.