Hyperplagiodontia Temporal range: Early Holocene | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Echimyidae |
Subfamily: | Capromyinae |
Tribe: | Plagiodontini |
Genus: | † Hyperplagiodontia Rimoli, 1977 |
Species: | †H. araeum |
Binomial name | |
†Hyperplagiodontia araeum (Ray, 1964) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Hyperplagiodontia, rarely called the wide-toothed hutia, is an extinct genus of hutia which contains a single species, Hyperplagiodontia araeum. [2] The species was originally described as a member of the genus Plagiodontia along with the extant Hispaniolan hutia (P. aedium), but after morphometric analysis in 2012, was moved to its own genus, Hyperplagiodontia. [3] [4] Fossils of H. araeum have only been found on Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.