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- noun Any member of the
Caviomorpha , arodent infraorder orparvorder that unites allSouth American hystricognaths .
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Why were they joined by the entire infraorder of caviomorph rodents, including guinea pigs, agoutis, pacas, maras, capybaras, chinchillas and lots of others, a large group of characteristically South American rodents, found nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Why were they joined by the entire infraorder of caviomorph rodents, including guinea pigs, agoutis, pacas, maras, capybaras, chinchillas and lots of others, a large group of characteristically South American rodents, found nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Both lived alongside New World vultures, flamingos, screamers and caviomorph rodents [the adjacent photo, of the brontornithine Paraphysornis, is borrowed from Cais de Gaia's phorusrhacid blog post].
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Both lived alongside New World vultures, flamingos, screamers and caviomorph rodents [the adjacent photo, of the brontornithine Paraphysornis, is borrowed from Cais de Gaia's phorusrhacid blog post].
More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006
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Although biogeographic and body size similarities suggest that it may be related to the Puerto Rican giant hutia Elasmodontomys, the Antillean large-bodied rodent family Heptaxodontidae is now interpreted as invalid, and it is impossible to assign Tainotherium to a particular caviomorph family in the absence of associated craniodental material.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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