Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142
Parent taxon: Dinomyidae according to M. G. Vucetich et al. 2015
See also Ameghino 1904, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Rovereto 1914
Sister taxa: Branisamys, Briaromys, Carlesia, Colpostemma, Diaphoromys, Dinomys, Discolomys, Doellomys, Drytomomys, Eumegamyinae, Eumegamys, Eumegamysops, Eusigmomys, Ferigolomys, Gyriabrus, Josephoartigasia, Olenopsis, Paranamys, Pentastylodon, Pentastylomys, Potamarchinae, Protomegamys, Pseudosigmomys, Rusconia, Scleromys, Telicomys, Telodontomys, Tetrastylomys
Subtaxa: Simplimus indivisus
Ecology: ground dwelling frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (4 collections), Brazil (2), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Peru (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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