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Neochoerus
''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of ''Neochoerus'' have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the .... References Further reading Paleobiology Database query for ''Neochoerus'' Cavies Pleistocene mammals of South America Prehistoric rodent genera Pleistocene rodents Pleistocene genera Pleistocene mammals of North America Prehistory of Colombia Pleistocene Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense Fossil taxa described in 1926 Taxa named by William Perry Hay {{paleo-rodent-stub ...
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Neochoerus Occidentalis
''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ... closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of ''Neochoerus'' have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia. References Further reading Paleobiology Database query for ''Neochoerus'' Cavies Pleistocene mammals of South America Prehistoric rodent genera Pleistocene rodents Pleistocene genera Pleistocene mammals of North America Prehistory of Colombia Pleistocene Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense Fossil taxa described in 1926 Taxa named by William Perry Hay {{paleo-rodent-stub ...
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Neochoerus Cordobai
''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ... closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of ''Neochoerus'' have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia. References Further reading Paleobiology Database query for ''Neochoerus'' Cavies Pleistocene mammals of South America Prehistoric rodent genera Pleistocene rodents Pleistocene genera Pleistocene mammals of North America Prehistory of Colombia Pleistocene Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense Fossil taxa described in 1926 Taxa named by William Perry Hay {{paleo-rodent-stub ...
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Neochoerus Sirasakae
''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ... closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of ''Neochoerus'' have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia. References Further reading Paleobiology Database query for ''Neochoerus'' Cavies Pleistocene mammals of South America Prehistoric rodent genera Pleistocene rodents Pleistocene genera Pleistocene mammals of North America Prehistory of Colombia Pleistocene Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense Fossil taxa described in 1926 Taxa named by William Perry Hay {{paleo-rodent-stub ...
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Neochoerus Sulcidens
''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ... closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of ''Neochoerus'' have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia. References Further reading Paleobiology Database query for ''Neochoerus'' Cavies Pleistocene mammals of South America Prehistoric rodent genera Pleistocene rodents Pleistocene genera Pleistocene mammals of North America Prehistory of Colombia Pleistocene Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense Fossil taxa described in 1926 Taxa named by William Perry Hay {{paleo-rodent-stub ...
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Neochoerus Tarijensis
''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ... closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of ''Neochoerus'' have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia. References Further reading Paleobiology Database query for ''Neochoerus'' Cavies Pleistocene mammals of South America Prehistoric rodent genera Pleistocene rodents Pleistocene genera Pleistocene mammals of North America Prehistory of Colombia Pleistocene Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense Fossil taxa described in 1926 Taxa named by William Perry Hay {{paleo-rodent-stub ...
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Neochoerus Pinckneyi Paleoart By RunicPotato
''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ... closely related to the living capybara. Fossil remains of ''Neochoerus'' have been found through North America (México and United States) and South America in Boyacá, Colombia. References Further reading Paleobiology Database query for ''Neochoerus'' Cavies Pleistocene mammals of South America Prehistoric rodent genera Pleistocene rodents Pleistocene genera Pleistocene mammals of North America Prehistory of Colombia Pleistocene Colombia Altiplano Cundiboyacense Fossil taxa described in 1926 Taxa named by William Perry Hay {{paleo-rodent-stub ...
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Neochoerus Aesopi
''Neochoerus aesopi'' was a relatively large rodent species native to North America until their extinction about 12,000 years ago, being closely related to modern capybaras (genus ''Hydrochoerus''). It was part of the subfamily ''Hydrochoerinae''. Fossils of it have been found in U.S. states such as Florida and South Carolina. The species was originally outlined in 1853, it weighed about 80 kg similar in size to the modern day capybara. It has been synonymized with ''Hydrochoerus holmesi'' and several other formerly recognized extinct taxa. Identification of these types of rodent fossils is an inexact science, and lines between various classifications are often questionable. Unlike extant capybaras, ''N. aesopi'' lived in North America, where its ancestors had migrated from South America during the Great American Interchange. See also *''Hydrochoerinae'' **''Hydrochoerus'' *''Neochoerus ''Neochoerus'' ("new hog") is an extinct genus of rodent closely related to the living ...
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Neochoerus Pinckneyi
''Neochoerus pinckneyi'' was a North American species of capybara. While capybaras originated in South America, formation of the Isthmus of Panama three million years ago allowed some of them to migrate north as part of the Great American Interchange. Capybaras and porcupines are the only caviomorph rodents that reached temperate North America during this exchange (a much greater diversity of North American rodents invaded South America). At , 40% larger than the living capybara, ''N. pinckneyi'' is one of the largest rodent species ever discovered, surpassed only by '' Josephoartigasia monesi'', several species of '' Phoberomys'', and possibly the Pleistocene giant beaver. Remains have been found in southern North America, from Arizona to Florida to South Carolina, and throughout Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south ...
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Capybara
The capybaraAlso called capivara (in Brazil), capiguara (in Bolivia), chigüire, chigüiro, or fercho (in Colombia and Venezuela), carpincho (in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and ronsoco (in Peru). or greater capybara (''Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris'') is a giant cavy rodent native to South America. It is the largest living rodent and a member of the genus '' Hydrochoerus''. The only other extant member is the lesser capybara (''Hydrochoerus isthmius''). Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, the chinchilla, and the nutria. The capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests, and lives near bodies of water. It is a highly social species and can be found in groups as large as 100 individuals, but usually live in groups of 10–20 individuals. The capybara is hunted for its meat and hide and also for grease from its thick fatty skin. It is not considered a threatened species. Etymology Its common name is deriv ...
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Altiplano Cundiboyacense
The Altiplano Cundiboyacense () is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. The altiplano corresponds to the ancient territory of the Muisca. The Altiplano Cundiboyacense comprises three distinctive flat regions; the Bogotá savanna, the valleys of Ubaté and Chiquinquirá, and the valleys of Duitama and Sogamoso. The average altitude of the altiplano is about above sea level but ranges from roughly to . Etymology ''Altiplano'' in Spanish means "high plain" or "high plateau", the second part is a combination of the departments Cundinamarca and Boyacá. Geography The limits of the Altiplano are not strictly defined. The high plateau is enclosed by the higher mountains of the Eastern Ranges, with the Sumapaz mountains in the south and Chingaza to the east. The Tenza Valley is located to the east of the Altiplano and the Ocetá Páramo and Chicamocha Canyon are situated ...
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Prehistoric Rodent Genera
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared 5000 years ago. It took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted, with writing spreading to almost all cultures by the 19th century. The end of prehistory therefore came at very different times in different places, and the term is less often used in discussing societies where prehistory ended relatively recently. In the early Bronze Age, Sumer in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley Civilisation, and ancient Egypt were the first civilizations to develop their own scripts and to keep historical records, with their neighbors following. Most other civilizations reached the end of prehistory during the following Iron Age. T ...
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Pleistocene Colombia
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the cutoff of the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being 1.806 million years Before Present (BP). Publications from earlier years may use either definition of the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology. The name is a combination of Ancient Greek grc, label=none, πλεῖστος, pleīstos, most and grc, label=none, καινός, kainós (latinized as ), 'new'. At the end of the preceding Pliocene, the previously isolated North and South American continents were joined by the Isthmus of Panama, causing a faunal interchange between the two reg ...
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