Elasmodontomys obliquus Anthony, 1916
Plate-toothed mouse, Puerto Rican giant hutia, Puerto Rican plate-toothed giant hutia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Heptaxodon bidens Anthony, 1917
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: >2,000 BC
Distribution
Puerto Rico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
UPRMP 2920
UPRMP 2952
UPRMP 2984;
UPRMP 2985
UPRMP 2986
Media
References
Anthony, H. E. (1917). New fossil rodents from Porto Rico, with additional notes on Elasmodontomys obliquus Anthony and Heteropsomys insulans Anthony. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37(4): 183-190.
Anthony, H.E. 1918 The indigenous land mammals of Porto Rico, living and extinct. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 2: 331-435.
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.
Cooke, Siobhán B., Dávalos, Liliana M., Mychajliw, Alexis M. Turvey, Samuel T. and Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Anthropogenic Extinction Dominates Holocene Declines of West Indian Mammals. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 48: 301-327. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022754
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E. (2013). Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica 145: 1-130. [13.7-13.804 kg estimate]
McFarlane, D. A. (1999). Late Quaternary Fossil Mammals and Last Occurrence dates from Caves at Barahona, Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 35(3): 238-248.
Smith, F.A., Lyons, S.K, Morgan Ernest, S.K, Jones, K.E., Kaufman, D.M., Dayan, T., Marquet, P.A., Brown, J.H. & Haskell, J.P. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84: 3403. [Ecological Archives E084-094]
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
Turvey, S. T., Oliver, J. R., Narganes Storde, Y. M. and Rye, P. (2007). Late Holocene extinction of Puerto Rican native land mammals. Biology Letters 3(2): 193-196.
Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Past and present of insular Caribbean mammals: understanding Holocene extinctions to inform modern biodiversity conservation. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 913-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx079
Vélez-Juarbe, Jorge and Miller, Thomas E. (2007). First Report of a Quaternary Crocodylian from a Cave Deposit in Northern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2): 273-277. [a report of E. obliquus from northern Puerto Rico]
Woods, C.A., Borroto Paéz, R. & Kilpatrick, C.W. 2001 Insular patterns and radiations of West Indian rodents. In Biogeography of the West Indies: patterns and perspectives (ed. C.A. Woods & F.E. Sergile), pp. 335-353. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
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