Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Full reference: R. Hoffstetter and R. Lavocat. 1970. Découverte dans le Déséadien de Bolivia de genres pentalophodontes appuyant les affinités africaines des Rongeurs Caviomorphes. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 271:172-175
Parent taxon: Chinchillidae according to A. M. Candela et al. 2021
See also Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970, Lavocat 1976, Patterson and Wood 1982 and Vucetich et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Chinchilla, Eoviscaccia, Lagidium, Lagostominae, Miochinchilla, Pliolagostomus, Prolagostomus, Scotamys, Sphodromys
Subtaxa: Incamys bolivianus Incamys menniorum
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Deseadan of Argentina (2 collections), Bolivia (3)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 6 collections including 8 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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