Hyperplagiodontia

Hyperplagiodontia
Temporal range: Early Holocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Tribe: Plagiodontini
Genus: †Hyperplagiodontia
Rimoli, 1977
Species:
†H. araeum
Binomial name
†Hyperplagiodontia araeum
(Ray, 1964)
Synonyms
  • Plagiodontia araeum
  • Hyperplagiodontia stenocoronalis (Rímoli, 1976 [1977])[1]

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.

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