Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae

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

Parent taxon: Erethizontidae according to A. M. Candela 1999

See also Ameghino 1904, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Vucetich et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Branisamyopsis, Cholamys, Coendou, Eopululo, Erethizon, Erethizontinae, Hyposteiromys, Hypsosteiromys, Microsteiromys, Palaeosteiromys, Paradoxomys, Protosteiromys

Subtaxa: Parasteiromys friantae Parasteiromys uniformis

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Type: Parasteiromys uniformis

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí (Miocene of Argentina)

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