Mammalia - Rodentia - Eocardiidae

Alternative spellings: Eocardidae, Eocardinae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1891. Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles descubiertos por Carlos Ameghino en el Eoceno inferior de la Patagonia austral. – Especies nuevas, adiciones y correcciones [New remains of fossil mammals discovered by Carlos Ameghino in the lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. – New species, additions, and corrections]. Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1:289-328

Parent taxon: Cavioidea according to A. E. Wood and B. Patterson 1959

See also Ameghino 1891, Ameghino 1894, Ameghino 1904, Carroll 1988, Gadow 1898, Kramarz et al. 2010 and Wood 1958

Sister taxa: Agoutidae, Andemys, Asteromys, Banderomys, Branisamys, Caviidae, Chubutomys, Cuniculidae, Dasyproctidae, Eobranisamys, Eocardia, Guiomys, Hydrochoeridae, Luantus, Microcardiodon, Neoreomys, Soriamys

Subtaxa: Dicardia Eocardiinae Eoprocardia Hedimys Luantinae Matiamys Megastus Phanomys Tricardia

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Type: Eocardiinae

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

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