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Bibimys massoiai Neves et al., 2020

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí, Brazil

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Neves, Simon B. et al. (2020). A new fossil cricetid (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from northeastern Brazil with remarks on small mammal extinctions in the tropical Quaternary. Journal of Mammalogy. DOI:10.1093/jmammal/gyaa066

 

Other references:

Hadler, Patricia, Galliari, Carlos A. and Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J. (2024). Chancy History of a Supposedly Vanished South American Rodent, Lagostomus crassus, with Remarks on Recent Extinctions in Caviomorphs, pp. 81-97. In: Rasia, Luciano Luis, Barbeito, Claudio Gustavo and Acuña, Francisco. (eds.). Plains Vizcachas: Biology and Evolution of a Peculiar Neotropical Caviomorph Rodent. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49487-1_6

Neves, S. B., E. L. Mayer, P. Hadler, and A. M. Ribeiro. (2017). Sigmodontine rodents (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from Quaternary cave deposits of Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 20:163-178.

 

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