Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Alternative combinations: Hyposteiromys nectus, Steiromys nectus
Synonym: Steiromys tabulatus Ameghino 1902
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
Belongs to Hypsosteiromys according to M. A. Candela and M.G. Vucetich 2002
See also Ameghino 1902, Patterson 1958 and Vucetich et al. 2010
Sister taxon: Hypsosteiromys axiculus
Type specimens:
- Hypsosteiromys nectus: MACN A 52-172, a mandible (dext. with d4-m2).
- Steiromys tabulatus: MACN A 52-172, a mandible (fragment of left ramus with p4-m3). 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 (Miocene of Argentina)
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