Caviodon

Caviodon; Temporal range: Late Miocene-Late Pliocene (Montehermosan-Chapadmalalan); ~6.8–3.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Caviidae
Genus:	†Caviodon; Ameghino, 1885

Caviodon is an extinct genus of Late Miocene to Late Pliocene (Chapadmalalan to Montehermosan in the SALMA classification) rodents, related to the modern capybara. Fossils of Caviodon have been found in Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil.^[1]^[2]

Known species include:^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Caviodon at Fossilworks.org
^ Kerber, L.; Negri, F.R.; et al. (June 2016). "Tropical fossil caviomorph rodents from the southwestern Brazilian Amazonia in the context of the South American faunas: systematics, biochronology, and paleobiogeography". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 24: 57–70. doi:10.1007/s10914-016-9340-2.
^ María Guiomar Vucetich; Cecilia M. Deschamps; Cecilia C. Morgan; Analía M. Forasiepi (2011). "A new species of Cardiomyinae (Rodentia, Hydrochoeridae) from western Argentina. Its age and considerations on ontogeny and diversity of the subfamily". Ameghiniana. 48 (4): 556–567. doi:10.5710/AMGH.v48i4(459). hdl:11336/98359. S2CID 130118821.

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