Abstract
ABSTRACT Fossil mammals comprising the early (and perhaps earliest) Wasatchian Red Hot local fauna from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi are described. As currently understood, the fauna consists of 33 species of mammals, including the following new taxa: Mimoperadectes sowasheensis, new species; Apatemys pygmaeus, new species; Palaeosinopa aestuarium, new species; Naranius americanus, new species; Colpocherus mississippiensis, new genus and species; Diacocherus dockeryi, new species; Wyonycteris primitivus, new species; Choctawius foxi, new genus and species; Haplomylus meridionalis, new species; Ectocion nanabeensis, new species; Miacis igniculus, new species; Eogale parydros, new genus and species; Viverriscus omnivorus, new genus and species; Paramys dispar, new species; Corbarimys? nomadus, new species; and Franimys? actites, new species. New combinations proposed here include Plagioctenodon dormaalensis (Quinet, 1964), Plagioctenodon rosei (Gingerich, 1987), Choctawius mckennai (Szalay, 1969), ...
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