Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Full reference: C. Rovereto. 1914. Los Estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Buenos Aire 25:1-247
Belongs to Tetrastylus according to C. Rovereto 1914
Sister taxa: Tetrastylus angustidens, Tetrastylus araucanus, Tetrastylus atrophiatus, Tetrastylus laevigatus, Tetrastylus montanus
Type specimen: MACN 8323, a skull (almost complete skull and mandible). Its type locality is Santa Maria Valley Andalhuala Fm, which is in a Montehermosan/Chapadmalalan terrestrial horizon in the Andalhuala Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: ground dwelling frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Argentina (2 collections)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (3)
• Miocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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