Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Parent taxon: Chinchilloidea according to N. S. Upham and B. D. Patterson 2015
See also Carroll 1988, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Huchon and Douzery 2001, Kramarz et al. 2010, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Patterson and Wood 1982 and Wood 1958
Sister taxa: Borikenomys, Garridomys, Heptaxodontidae, Loncolicu, Neoepiblemidae, Niedemys, Saremmys, Ucayalimys
Subtaxa: 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 Simplimus Telicomys Telodontomys Tetrastylomys
Type: Dinomys
Ecology: ground dwelling frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Peru (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uruguay (2)
• Pliocene of Argentina (6), Brazil (1), Uruguay (1)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (15), Bolivia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (28), Brazil (12), Chile (2), Colombia (26), Peru (14), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (11)
• Deseadan of Bolivia (3)
• Oligocene of Peru (1)
Total: 128 collections including 243 occurrences