Mammalia - Rodentia - Heptaxodontidae

Full reference: H. E. Anthony. 1916. Preliminary report on fossil mammals from Porto Rico, with descriptions of a new genus of ground sloth and two new genera of hystricomorph rodents. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 27:183-189

Parent taxon: Heptaxodontidae according to L. Marivaux et al. 2022

See also Marivaux et al. 2020 and Woods et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Amblyrhiza, Clidomys, Quemisia, Xaymaca

Subtaxa: Elasmodontomys obliquus

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Type: Elasmodontomys obliquus

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cueva Salida (Exit Cave) (Quaternary of Puerto Rico)

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