Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Alternative combination: Steiromys uniformis
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
Belongs to Parasteiromys according to A. M. Candela 1999
See also Ameghino 1904, Patterson 1958 and Vucetich et al. 2010
Sister taxon: Parasteiromys friantae
Type specimen: Its type locality is Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí, which is in a Colhuehuapian terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina
Ecology: arboreal herbivore
Distribution: found only at Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí
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