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Taxonomy
Asteromys was named by Ameghino (1897). Its type is Asteromys punctus.
It was assigned to Cephalomyidae by Ameghino (1897); to Luantinae by Wood and Patterson (1959); to Eocardiidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cavioidea by Pérez and Vucetich (2012), Vucetich et al. (2015), Pérez et al. (2018); and to Chinchilloidea by Busker et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Cephalomyidae by Ameghino (1897); to Luantinae by Wood and Patterson (1959); to Eocardiidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cavioidea by Pérez and Vucetich (2012), Vucetich et al. (2015), Pérez et al. (2018); and to Chinchilloidea by Busker et al. (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1897 | Asteromys Ameghino p. 495 |
| 1959 | Asteromys Wood and Patterson |
| 1997 | Asteromys McKenna and Bell |
| 2012 | Asteromys Pérez and Vucetich |
| 2015 | Asteromys Vucetich et al. |
| 2018 | Asteromys Pérez et al. |
| 2020 | Asteromys Busker 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.
G. †Asteromys Ameghino 1897
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†Asteromys bolivianus Lavocat 1976
†Asteromys puelche Candela et al. 2021
†Asteromys punctus Ameghino 1897
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Oligocene or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Deseadan | Argentina (Chubut) | A. punctus (14211) A. sp. (176465) | |
| Deseadan | Bolivia (La Paz) | A. bolivianus (13081 133691 194510 194514 194515 194516 194517) Cephalomys bolivianus (133539 133596) | |
| Deseadan | Bolivia | Cephalomys bolivianus (95688) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Argentina (Mendoza) | A. puelche (220946) |