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Eocardiidae
Taxonomy
Eocardiidae was named by Ameghino (1891). Its type is Eocardiinae.
It was corrected as Eocardidae by Ameghino (1891) and Gadow (1898); it was reranked as the subfamily Eocardinae by Ameghino (1904); it was misspelled as Eocardidae by Ameghino (1894), Wood (1958), Wood and Patterson (1959), Carroll (1988) and Kramarz et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Rodentia by Ameghino (1891); to Hystricomorpha by Ameghino (1894); to Hystricomorpha by Gadow (1898); to Caviidae by Ameghino (1904); to Cavioidea by Wood (1958), Wood and Patterson (1959) and Carroll (1988); and to Hystricognathi by Kramarz et al. (2010).
It was corrected as Eocardidae by Ameghino (1891) and Gadow (1898); it was reranked as the subfamily Eocardinae by Ameghino (1904); it was misspelled as Eocardidae by Ameghino (1894), Wood (1958), Wood and Patterson (1959), Carroll (1988) and Kramarz et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Rodentia by Ameghino (1891); to Hystricomorpha by Ameghino (1894); to Hystricomorpha by Gadow (1898); to Caviidae by Ameghino (1904); to Cavioidea by Wood (1958), Wood and Patterson (1959) and Carroll (1988); and to Hystricognathi by Kramarz et al. (2010).
Subtaxa
Dicardia, Eocardiinae (type subfamily), Eoprocardia (syn. Procardia), Hedimys, Luantinae, Matiamys, Megastus, Phanomys, Tricardia
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1891 | Eocardidae Ameghino p. 16 |
| 1891 | Eocardiidae Ameghino p. 16 |
| 1894 | Eocardidae Ameghino p. 73 |
| 1898 | Eocardidae Gadow p. 43 |
| 1904 | Eocardinae Ameghino p. 106 |
| 1958 | Eocardiidae Wood p. 172 |
| 1959 | Eocardiidae Wood and Patterson |
| 1988 | Eocardiidae Carroll |
| 2010 | Eocardiidae Kramarz et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Eocardiidae Ameghino 1891
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Subfm. †Eocardiinae Wood and Patterson 1959
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G. †Schistomys Ameghino 1887
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†Schistomys crassus Ameghino 1891
†Schistomys ellipticus Ameghino 1891
†Schistomys erro Ameghino 1887
G. †Eoprocardia Trouessart 1904
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†Eoprocardia elliptica Ameghino 1891
Invalid names: Procardia Ameghino 1891 [replaced]
G. †Tricardia Ameghino 1891
Invalid names: Luantinae Wood and Patterson 1959 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: s = species, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Vizcaíno et al. 2010, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Deseadan to the top of the Colloncuran or 29.00000 to 13.80000 Ma
Collections (22 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Deseadan | Argentina (Chubut) | Eocardiidae indet. (14211) | |
| Colhuehuapian - Santacrucian | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | Phanomys mixtus (176629) | |
| Burdigalian | Chile (Aisén) | Schistomys erro (71843) | |
| Santacrucian | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | Eocardia fissa (142533) Eocardia fissa, Phanomys mixtus, Phanomys vetulus, Schistomys erro (176593) Eocardiidae indet. (206237) Eocardiidae indet., Eocardia fissa (176636) Phanomys mixtus (59324 59333 59334 142529) Phanomys sp. (176571 210638) Phanomys sp., Eocardidae indet. (210787) Phanomys sp., Phanomys mixtus (210786) Schistomys erro (210637) Schistomys rollinsii (210153) | |
| Santacrucian - Laventan | Chile (Bío Bío) | Eocardiidae indet., Phanomys mixtus (140105) | |
| Colloncuran | Argentina (Neuquén) | Eocardiidae indet. (141175) Megastus elongatus (207561) | |
| Colloncuran | Argentina (Río Negro) | Megastus sp. (140691) | |
| Colloncuran | Argentina (Rio Negro) | Matiamys elegans (61265) |