First record of Sigmodon minor (Rodentia) in the early Blancan of central Mexico: Asymmetrical dispersal from the Great Plains and paleoecology inferences

• Adolfo Pacheco-Castro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico

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• Oscar Carranza-Castañeda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, Mexico

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• Xiaoming Wang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xwang@nhm.org

  Affiliations Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1610-3840

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