Neoepiblemidae
Neoepiblemidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Superfamily: | Cavioidea |
Family: | †Neoepiblemidae Kraglievich 1926 |
Genera | |
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The Neoepiblemidae are an extinct family of hystricognath rodents from South America. The genera and are now included in Phoberomys.[1] The delineation between Neoepiblemidae and Dinomyidae has historically been unclear; with some genera (such as Phoberomys and ) having varying taxonomic placement. A 2017 study found Phoberomys to be part of the group, While Eusigmomys to be part of Dinomyidae.[2]
Fossils of the family were found in the Colhuehuapian to Huayquerian , , , and Ituzaingó Formations and of Argentina, the Solimões Formation of Brazil, the Pebas Formation of Peru and the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela.[3]
References[]
- ^ Horovitz et al. 2006
- ^ Rasia, Luciano L.; Candela, Adriana M. (2018-05-19). "Reappraisal of the giant caviomorph rodent Phoberomys burmeisteri (Ameghino, 1886) from the late Miocene of northeastern Argentina, and the phylogeny and diversity of Neoepiblemidae". Historical Biology. 30 (4): 486–495. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1294168. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ Neoepiblemidae at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography[]
- Horovitz, Inés, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Thomas Martin and Orangel A. Aguilera (2006): The fossil record of Phoberomys pattersoni Mones 1980 (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Urumaco (Late Miocene, Venezuela), with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4 (3): 293–306.
Further reading[]
- Kramarz, A.G. 2001. Revision of the family Cephalomyidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) and new cephalomyids from the early Miocene of Patagonia. Palaeovertebrata 30(1-2):51-88.
- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
Categories:
- Hystricognath rodents
- Prehistoric rodent families
- Miocene first appearances
- Miocene extinctions
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Colhuehuapian
- Santacrucian
- Friasian
- Colloncuran
- Laventan
- Mayoan
- Chasicoan
- Huayquerian
- Prehistoric rodent stubs