The pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native Tupi people call it the pacarana (false...

Early Pleistocene of Uruguay. The only living member of Dinomyidae is the pacarana. Josephoartigasia is named after Uruguayan national hero José Artigas....

very speciose group, but now contains only a single living species, the pacarana. Several of the extinct dinomyids were among the largest rodents known...

Scientific name Status Maximum body mass [kg (lb)] Image Notes 1 Giant pacarana Josephoartigasia monesi Fossil 500 kg (1,100 lb) 2 Phoberomys pattersoni...

the capybara, chinchillas and viscachas, tuco-tucos, agoutis, pacas, pacaranas, spiny rats, New World porcupines, coypu and octodonts (Vassallo and Antenucci...

chinchillas and viscachas (South America) Family Dinomyidae: (1 species) pacarana (South America) Family Caviidae: (18 species) cavies and capybara (South...

the diurnal degus species) Oncilla Ocelot Opossum Otter Owl Owl monkey Pacarana Panamanian night monkey Pangolin Platypus Paradoxical frog Porcupine Possum...

terrestris), jaguar (Panthera onca), jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), pacarana (Dinomys branickii), and dwarf brocket deer (Mazama chunyi). Interesting...

100 kg (220 lb). The largest known rodent was Josephoartigasia monesi, a pacarana with an estimated body length of 3 m (10 ft). The first rodents arrived...

Cuniculidae (pacas) Dasyproctidae (agoutis and acouchis) Dinomyidae (pacaranas and their fossil relatives, including some of megafaunal size) Echimyidae...