Twisted-toothed mouse Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Early Holocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | †Heptaxodontidae |
Genus: | †Quemisia Miller, 1929 |
Species: | †Q. gravis
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Binomial name | |
†Quemisia gravis Miller, 1929
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The twisted-toothed mouse (Quemisia gravis), also known as the twisted-toothed giant hutia[1] is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae.[1] It is monotypic within the genus Quemisia.[1] It was endemic to Hispaniola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic).