Plate-toothed giant hutia

Plate-toothed giant hutia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heptaxodontidae
Genus: Elasmodontomys
Anthony, 1916
Species: E. obliquus
Binomial name
Elasmodontomys obliquus
Anthony, 1916

The plate-toothed giant hutia (Elasmodontomys obliquus) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae. It is monotypic 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]

References

  1. 1 2 Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Turvey, S. T.; Oliver, J. R.; Narganes Storde, Y. M.; Rye, P. (2007). "Late Holocene extinction of Puerto Rican native land mammals". Biology Letters 3 (2): 193–196. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0585. PMC 2375922. PMID 17251123.
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