Eoviscaccia
| Eoviscaccia Temporal range: Early Oligocene-Early Miocene (Tinguirirican-Colhuehuapian) ~ | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Chinchillidae |
| Genus: | †Eoviscaccia Vucetich, 1989 |
| Type species | |
| †Eoviscaccia boliviana Vucetich, 1989 | |
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Eoviscaccia is an extinct genus of chinchillid rodent that lived during the Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican) to the Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian) in what is now South America. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Cerro Bandera, Chichinales, Fray Bentos, and Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Salla Formation of Bolivia, and the Abanico Formation of Chile.
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