Mammalia - Rodentia - Cephalomyidae
Synonym: Orchiomys Ameghino 1897
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1897. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]. Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18(4–9):406-521
Parent taxon: Cephalomyidae according to F. Busker et al. 2020
See also Ameghino 1897, Arnal and Vucetich 2015, Busker and Dozo 2018, Lavocat 1976, McKenna and Bell 1997, Vucetich et al. 2015 and Wood and Patterson 1959
Sister taxa: Cephalomyopsis, Litodontomys
Subtaxa: Cephalomys arcidens Cephalomys ceciae
Type: Cephalomys arcidens
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection)
• Deseadan of Argentina (4)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 6 collections including 15 occurrences
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