Dinomyidae
| Dinomyidae Temporal range:
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| Josephoartigasia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Superfamily: | Chinchilloidea |
| Family: | Dinomyidae Peters, 1873 |
| Genera | |
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The Dinomyidae are a
native ungulates of South America. On the other side, they could feed on aquatic or swampy plants along the ancient rivers.[3] These large forms disappeared after the formation of a connection to North America. The modern pacarana is only modest in size, considerably smaller than the capybara
.
The Neoepiblemidae, an entirely extinct family, may actually be part of the Dinomyidae; both groups are undoubtedly closely related.
Genera
- Family: Dinomyidae
- †Agnomys incertae sedis
- †Borikenomys - incertae sedis?
- †Pseudodiodomus incertae sedis
- Subfamily: Dinomyinae
- Dinomys - pacarana
- †Telodontomys
- Subfamily: †Eumegamyinae
- Subfamily: †Potamarchinae
References
- PMID 18198140.
Josephoartigasia monesi sp. nov. (family: Dinomyidae; Rodentia: Hystricognathi: Caviomorpha)
- ^ Francis, J.C. and A. Mones (1966). "Artigasia magna n. g., n. sp. (Eumegamyinae), un roedor gigantesco de la época Pliocena Superior de las Barrancas de San Gregorio, Departamento de San José, República Oriental del Uruguay". Kraglievana. 3: 89–100.
- ISBN 9783319984490. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ Rinderknecht, A.; Bostelmann, E.; Ubilla, M. (2011). "New genus of giant Dinomyidae (Rodentia: Hystricognathi: Caviomorpha) from the late Miocene of Uruguay". Journal of Mammalogy. 92 (1): 169–178.
- ^ Rinderknecht, A.; Bostelmann, E.; Ubilla, M. (2018). "Making a giant rodent: cranial anatomy and ontogenetic development in the genus Isostylomys (Mammalia, Hystricognathi, Dinomyidae)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (3): 245–261. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ^ Mones, A. (2007). "Josephoartigasia, Nuevo nombre para Artigasia Francis & Mones, 1966 (Rodentia, Dinomyidae), non Artigasia Christie, 1934 (Nematoda, Thelastomatidae)". Comun. Paleontol. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo. 36: 213–214.
- McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8.