Alterodon major Anthony, 1920
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Jamaica
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: AMNHP 17638
Media
References
Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Mancina, Carlos A., Woods, Charles A. and Kilpatrick, C. William. (2012). Checklist: Updated Checklist of Endemic Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies, pp. 389-415. In: Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History and Wacahoota Press. 482 pp.
MacPhee, R. D. E. and Flemming, Clare. (2003). A Possible Heptaxodontine and Other Caviidan Rodents from the Quaternary of Jamaica. American Museum Novitates, No. 3422 (42 pp.).
McPhee, R. D. E., Woods, C. A. and Morgan, G. S. (1983). The Pleistocene rodent Alterodon major and the mammalian biogeography of Jamaica. Paleontology 26(4): 831-837.