Plate-toothed giant hutia Temporal range:
Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | † Heptaxodontidae |
Genus: | †
Elasmodontomys Anthony, 1916 |
Species: | †E. obliquus
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Binomial name | |
†Elasmodontomys obliquus Anthony, 1916
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Synonyms | |
Heptaxodon obliquus |
The plate-toothed giant hutia (Elasmodontomys obliquus) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae. It is the only species within the genus Elasmodontomys. It was found in Puerto Rico. [1]
The rodent is thought to have weighed 13 kilograms (29 lb) and survived for at least 2000 years after humans colonised Puerto Rico. [2]
Despite being described as a "giant hutia", it has recently been recovered as a member of the Chinchilloidea. [3]
Plate-toothed giant hutia Temporal range:
Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | † Heptaxodontidae |
Genus: | †
Elasmodontomys Anthony, 1916 |
Species: | †E. obliquus
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Binomial name | |
†Elasmodontomys obliquus Anthony, 1916
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Synonyms | |
Heptaxodon obliquus |
The plate-toothed giant hutia (Elasmodontomys obliquus) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae. It is the only species within the genus Elasmodontomys. It was found in Puerto Rico. [1]
The rodent is thought to have weighed 13 kilograms (29 lb) and survived for at least 2000 years after humans colonised Puerto Rico. [2]
Despite being described as a "giant hutia", it has recently been recovered as a member of the Chinchilloidea. [3]