Plate-toothed giant hutia Temporal range: Late Pleistocene | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | †Heptaxodontidae |
Genus: | †Elasmodontomys Anthony, 1916 |
Species: |
†E. obliquus
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Binomial name | |
†Elasmodontomys obliquus Anthony, 1916 | |
Synonyms | |
Heptaxodon obliquus |
The plate-toothed giant hutia (Elasmodontomys obliquus) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae. It is the only species within the genus Elasmodontomys. It was found in Puerto Rico.[1]
The rodent is thought to have weighed 13 kilograms (29 lb) and survived for at least 2000 years after humans colonised Puerto Rico.[2]
Despite being described as a "giant hutia", it has recently been recovered as a member of the Chinchilloidea.[3]
Elasmodontomys obliquus |
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