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Hydrochaeris holmesi - tooth

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Capybara fossil tooth, cm 2.5 x 1.5 x 1, restored.

Semi-aquatic mammal, it could grow to the size of a modern day pig.
The capybara, belonging to the family Caviidae, is the largest rodent currently alive.Gli adults come up to 135 cm in length and some may go up to a weight of 70 kg. ll capybara living on the banks of rivers and lakes, in swamps and generally in all areas in humid tropical and temperate South America, east of the Andes.
Though now extinct, there once existed a larger capybara called Neochoerus pinckneyi. Other fossil cavys that were eight times the size of modern capybaras have been informally called "capybaras" but were actually dinomyids related to the pacarana.

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