Hyperplagiodontia

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
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Subfamily:	Capromyinae
Tribe:	Plagiodontini
Genus:	†Hyperplagiodontia Rimoli, 1977
Species:	†H. araeum
Binomial name
†Hyperplagiodontia araeum (Ray, 1964)
Synonyms[1]
Plagiodontia araeum Hyperplagiodontia stenocoronalis (Rímoli, 1976 [1977])