Pacarana ( Dinomyidae ) - a relict family of South American rodents, including one modern and many extinct species. This family included the largest extinct rodent known to science: reaching the size of the bison Josephoartigasia monesi [1] and the smaller Josephoartigasia magna [2] . These animals occupied the ecological niche of large herbivores in South America at a time when this continent was isolated from North America. The only surviving representative of the family (Pakarana) has a body length of 73-79 cm and a weight of 10-15 kg.
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Reconstruction of the head of Josephoartigasia monesi
Systematics
- Dinomyidae Family
- † Pseudodiodomus incertae sedis
- † Agnomys incertae sedis
- Subfamily Eumegamyinae
- † Doellomys
- † Gyriabrus
- † Briaromys
- † Tetrastylus
- † Phoberomys
- † Colpostemma
- † Orthomys
- † Eumegamys
- † Pseudosigmomys
- † Pentastylodon
- † Eumegamysops
- † Telicomys
- † Perumys
- † Josephoartigasia [3]
- Subfamily Potamarchinae
- † Scleromys
- † Olenopsis
- † Simplimus
- † Eusigmomys
- † Potamarchus
- Subfamily Dinomyinae
- Dinomys - Pacarana
- † Telodontomys
Notes
- ↑ Rinderknecht, Andrés; R. Ernesto Blanco. The largest fossil rodent (neopr.) // Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. - 2008. - January 15 ( t. 275 , No. 1637 ). - S. 923-928 . - DOI : 10.1098 / rspb.2007.1645 . - PMID 18198140 .
- ↑ Francis, JC and A. Mones. Artigasia magna ng, 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 (Spanish) // Kraglievana: diario. - 1966. - V. 3 . - P. 89-100 .
- ↑ Mones, A. Josephoartigasia , Nuevo nombre para Artigasia Francis & Mones, 1966 (Rodentia, Dinomyidae), non Artigasia Christie, 1934 (Nematoda, Thelastomatidae) (Spanish) // Comun. Paleontol. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo: diario. - 2007. - V. 36 . - P. 213-214 .