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Caviodon

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Hydrochoeridae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Rodentia

Subfamily
  
Cardiomyinae

Similar
  
Cyonasua, Hydrochoerinae, Notoungulata, Xenarthra

Caviodon is an extinct genus of rodents. A new species, C. cuyano, was described from the Late Miocene – Pliocene of Argentina by María Guiomar Vucetich, Cecilia M. Deschamps, Cecilia C. Morgan and Analía M. Forasiepi in 2011.

References

Caviodon Wikipedia