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Eoviscaccia ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827899	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827899
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	146409	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=146409

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Chinchillidae : Eoviscaccia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
suborder	Hystricomorpha
infraorder	Hystricognathi
-	Caviomorpha
superfamily	Chinchilloidea	Bennett 1833
family	Chinchillidae	Bennett 1833
genus	Eoviscaccia	Vucetich 1990

Scientific Name

Eoviscaccia Vucetich, 1990

Name Published In

Bull Mus Natl Hist Nat Sect C Sci Terre Paleontol Geol Mineral 11 (4)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eoviscaccia	genus	belongs to Chinchillidae	stated with evidence	Vucetich, 1989
Eoviscaccia	genus	belongs to Chinchillidae	stated without evidence	Vucetich et al., 2010
Eoviscaccia	genus	belongs to Chinchilloidea	stated without evidence	Bertrand et al., 2012
Eoviscaccia	genus	belongs to Chinchilloidea	stated with evidence	Arnal and Vucetich, 2015
Eoviscaccia	genus	belongs to Chinchillidae	stated with evidence	Pérez et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

21.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Chinchillidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. G. Vucetich. 1989. Rodents (Mammalia) of the Lacayani fauna revisited (Deseadan, Bolivia). Comparison with new Chinchillidae and Cephalomyidae from Argentina. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 11(4):233-247

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eoviscaccia australis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	29.0 Ma Oligocene	21.0 Ma Miocene
Eoviscaccia boliviana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	29.0 Ma Oligocene	29.0 Ma Oligocene
Eoviscaccia frassinettii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1989	Eoviscaccia Vucetich
2002	Eoviscaccia Kramarz p. 237
2010	Eoviscaccia Vucetich et al.
2012	Eoviscaccia Bertrand et al.
2015	Eoviscaccia Arnal and Vucetich
2018	Eoviscaccia Pérez et al.

References

Vucetich M. G. (1989) Rodents (Mammalia) of the Lacayani fauna revisited (Deseadan, Bolivia). Comparison with new Chinchillidae and Cephalomyidae from Argentina, Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 11 4, 233-247

Kramarz A. G. (2002) Registro de Eoviscaccia (Rodentia, Chinchillidae) en estratos colhuehuapenses de Patagonia, Argentina, Ameghiniana 38 3, 237-242

Vucetich M. G., Kramarz A. G., et al (2010) Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia, 206-219

Bertrand O. C., Flynn J. J., et al (2012) Two new taxa (Caviomorpha, Rodentia) from the Early Oligocene Tinguiririca fauna (Chile), American Museum Novitates 3750, 1-36 doi:10.1206/3750.2

Arnal M., Vucetich M. G. (2015) Main radiation events in Pan-Octodontoidea (Rodentia, Caviomorpha), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175, 587-606

Pérez M. A., Arnal M., et al (2018) New caviomorph rodents from the late Oligocene of Salla, Bolivia: taxonomic, chronological, and biogeographic implications for the Deseadan faunas of South America, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1471622

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull Mus Natl Hist Nat Sect C Sci Terre Paleontol Geol Mineral 11 (4) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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