Extinct genus of rodents
Telicomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Solimões Formation, Brazil, South America.
Description.
This rodent weighed approximately . With a length of more than in "T. gigantissimus", it contains two or three of the largest rodents that ever lived, along with "Phoberomys", "Josephoartigasia", and the giant beaver. It is part of the same South American radiation of rodents as both "Phoberomys" and the modern capybara, which is the largest living rodent, reaching lengths of up to . The closest living relative to "Telicomys" is the pacarana.
Its name derives from Greek τηλικος + μυς = "a mouse [= rodent] of such a size".
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