Zazamys MacPhee and Iturralde-Vinent 1995 (hutia)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Capromyidae

Full reference: R. D. E. MacPhee and M. A. Iturralde-Vinent. 1995. Origin of the Greater Antillean land mammal fauna, 1: New Tertiary fossils from Cuba and Puerto Rico. American Museum Novitates 3141:1-31

Parent taxon: Isolobodontinae according to R. D. E. MacPhee et al. 2003

See also MacPhee and Iturralde-Vinent 1995

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Zazamys veronicae

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Type: Zazamys veronicae

Ecology: scansorial herbivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Domo de Zaza (Miocene of Cuba)

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