Hyperplagiodontia, rarely called the wide-toothed hutia, is an extinct genus of hutia which contains a single species, Hyperplagiodontia araeum.[2] The species was originally described as a member of the genus Plagiodontia along with the extant Hispaniolan hutia (P. aedium), but after morphometric analysis in 2012, was moved to its own genus, Hyperplagiodontia.[3][4] Fossils of H. araeum have only been found on Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
| Hyperplagiodontia Temporal range: Early Holocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Tribe: | Plagiodontini |
| Genus: | †Hyperplagiodontia Rimoli, 1977 |
| Species: | †H. araeum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hyperplagiodontia araeum (Ray, 1964) | |
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