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Interchange near the end of the Miocene,
about 5
million years ago.
Sigmodontines proceeded to
diversify explosively in the
formerly isolated continent...
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invasion of
sigmodontines preceded formation of the land
bridge by at
least several million years,
probably occurring via rafting.
Sigmodontines diversified...
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genus Gyldenstolpia. They are
relatively large in
relation to
other sigmodontines.
Gyldenstolpia fronto is the
larger of the two and
displays a semi-fossorial...
- curioi, also
known as the Galápagos
giant rat, is an
extinct species of
sigmodontine rodent,
known only from
Santa Cruz
Island in the Galápagos Islands. It...
- The
cursor gr**** mouse, or
cursorial akodont (Akodon cursor), is a
sigmodontine rodent from
South America. The
cursor gr****
mouse is a
moderately sized...
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Necromys is a
genus of
South American sigmodontine rodents allied to Akodon. This
genus has also been
known as
Cabreramys or more
recently Bolomys, and...
- Pardiñas’
Andean mouse (Thomasomys pardignasi) is a
species of
sigmodontine rodent in the
family Cricetidae known from the
Cordillera del Cóndor and Cordillera...
- Franck; Ortiz,
Pablo E.; Pardiñas,
Ulyses F.J. (March 2019). "The
oldest sigmodontine rodent revisited and the age of the
first South American cricetids"....
- very
similar to
Chilomys fumeus in size and appearance. Both are
small sigmodontines, with a head-and-body
length of 72 to 102 mm (2.8 to 4.0 in) and a tail...
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Antonio Brack's
Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys antoniobracki) is a
species of
sigmodontine rodent in the
family Cricetidae known from Peru. The
species is named...
