Neoepiblemidae

Neoepiblemidae
Temporal range: Early-Late Miocene (Colhuehuapian-Huayquerian)
~21.0–6.8 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Suborder:Hystricomorpha
Family:Neoepiblemidae
Kraglievich 1926
Genera
  • †Perimys
  • †Neoepiblema
  • †Scotamys

The Neoepiblemidae are an extinct family of hystricognath rodents from South America. The genera Dabbenea and Perumys, formerly placed here, are now included in Phoberomys.[1] The delimitation of the present family and the Dinomyidae is in need of review; some genera in the latter (such as Phoberomys and Eusigmomys) are sometimes included here.

Fossils of the family were found in the Colhuehuapian to Huayquerian Pinturas, Sarmiento, Santa Cruz, Cerro Bandera and Ituzaingó Formations and Colhué Huapí Member of Argentina, the Solimões Formation of Brazil, the Pebas Formation of Peru and the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Horovitz et al. 2006
  2. ↑ Neoepiblemidae at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

  • Horovitz, Inés, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Thomas Martin and Orangel A. Aguilera (2006): The fossil record of Phoberomys pattersoni Mones 1980 (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Urumaco (Late Miocene, Venezuela), with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4 (3): 293–306.

Further reading

  • Kramarz, A.G. 2001. Revision of the family Cephalomyidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) and new cephalomyids from the early Miocene of Patagonia. Palaeovertebrata 30(1-2):51-88.
  • McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.  ISBN 0-231-11013-8
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