Mammalia - Rodentia - Octodontidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Première contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique des couches à Colpodon [First contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Colopdon Beds]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:71-141
Parent taxon: Octodontidae according to F. Ameghino 1902
See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Wood and Patterson 1959
Sister taxa: Eucoelophorus, Massoiamys, Metacaremys, Octodontinae, Octodontomys, Octomys, Palaeoctodon, Phthoramys, Phtoramys, Pithanotomys, Plataeomys, Pseudoplataeomys
Subtaxa: Eoctodon crassiusculus Eoctodon securiclatus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Eoctodon in the database
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