Neochoerus sulcidens Lund, 1839
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Brazil & Uruguay
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lund, P. W. (1839). Coup d’oeil sur les espèces éteintes de mammifères du Brésil; extraits de quelques mémoires présentés à l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Copenhague. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Zoologie 2) 11: 214-234.
Other references:
Carbot-Chanona, G., Eng-Ponce, J., Gómez-Pérez, L.E. (2020). Description of the Neochoerus specimens from the late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) of Chiapas, and comments on the taxonomic identity of the fossil capybaras from other Mexican localities. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 72(1): A021019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2020v72n1a021019
Gomes, Anny Caroliny, Lessa, Gisele, Cartelle, Cástor and Kerber, Leonardo. (2019). New fossil remains of Quaternary capybaras (Rodentia: Caviomorpha: Caviidae) from the intertropical region of Brazil: morphology and taxonomy. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 91: 36-46. [Abstract]
Mones, A. (1991). Monographia de la familia Hydrochoeridae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 134: 1-235.
Vucetich, María Guiomar, Deschamps, Cecilia M. and Pérez, María Encarnación. (2015). The first capybaras (Rodentia, Caviidae, Hydrochoerinae) involved in the Great American Biotic Interchange. Ameghiana 52(3): 324-333.
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