Heptaxodontidae, rarely called giant hutia, is an extinct family of large rodents known from fossil and subfossil material found in the West Indies. One...

as a genuine part of the rodents. Caviomorphs include the extinct Heptaxodontidae (giant hutias), the extinct Josephoartigasia monesi (the largest rodent...

†Cephalomyidae †Eocardiidae Caviidae Dasyproctidae Cuniculidae Ctenomyidae Octodontidae Abrocomidae Echimyidae Myocastoridae Capromyidae †Heptaxodontidae...

considered threatened by the IUCN. The extinct giant hutias of the family Heptaxodontidae also inhabited the Caribbean, but are not thought to be closely related...

America) Family Capromyidae: (10 species) hutias (South America) Family Heptaxodontidae: giant Hutias (recently extinct) Family Myocastoridae: (57 species)...

†Diamantomyidae Dinomyidae Echimyidae †Eocardiidae Erethizontidae †Heptaxodontidae Heterocephalidae Hystricidae †Kenyamyidae Myocastoridae †Myophiomyidae...

twisted-toothed giant hutia is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae. It is monotypic within the genus Quemisia. It was endemic to Hispaniola...

minimal weight of 200 kg (440 lb). Amblyrhiza inundata from the family Heptaxodontidae was a massive animal, it weighed 50–200 kg (110–440 lb). The largest...

It is the sole species of the genus Amblyrhiza in the fossil family Heptaxodontidae. Some authors have suggested that its extinction may have resulted...

Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except...

Capromyidae – hutias Ctenomyidae – tuco-tucos Echimyidae – spiny rats †Heptaxodontidae – giant hutias Myocastoridae – nutria Octodontidae – degus and relatives...

This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda...

Neotoma findleyi Neotoma pygmaea Synaptomys australis All giant hutia (Heptaxodontidae) spp. Blunt-toothed giant hutia (Amblyrhiza inundata; could grow as...

This is a list of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about...

Jamaican giant hutia, is an extinct species of large rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae. It was endemic to the island of Jamaica and likely became extinct...

†Kenyamyidae Lavocat 1973 Family †Bathyergoididae Lavocat 1973 Family †Heptaxodontidae Anthony 1917 Family †Neoepiblemidae Kraglievich 1926 [Perimyidae Landry...

Hexolobodontinae Genus: Hexolobodon Imposter hutia, H. phenax EX Family: Heptaxodontidae Subfamily: Heptaxodontinae Genus: Quemisia Twisted-toothed mouse, Q...

(Elasmodontomys obliquus) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae. It is the only species within the genus Elasmodontomys. It was found...

Hexolobodontinae Genus: Hexolobodon Imposter hutia, Hexolobodon phenax EX Family: Heptaxodontidae Subfamily: Heptaxodontinae Genus: Quemisia Twisted-toothed mouse, Quemisia...

All are now extinct. Some have previously been included in a family Heptaxodontidae, but there is little evidence that the group is truly natural. Giant...