Hondonadia
{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Late Eocene-Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican)
~{{Fossil range|36|29}}
| taxon = Hondonadia
| authority = Goin & Candela, 1998
| type_species = †Hondonadia feruglioi
| type_species_authority = Goin & Candela, 1998
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- H. feruglioi {{small|Goin & Candela 1998}}
- H. parca {{small|Goin et al. 2010}}
- H. pittmanae {{small|Goin & Candela 2004}}
- H. praecipitia {{small|Goin et al. 2010}}
- H. pumila {{small|Goin et al. 2010}}
- H. fierroensis {{small|(Flynn & Wyss 1999)}}
| synonyms =
- Pascualdelphys {{small|Flynn & Wyss 1999}}
| range_map = {{Location map+ | South America
| relief = 1
| width = 250
| align = center
| places =
{{Location map~ | South America
| lat_deg = -9.5
| lon_deg = -72.8
| mark = Orange ff8040 pog.svg
| marksize = 10
| link = Yahuarango Formation
}}
{{Location map~ | South America
| lat_deg = -44.4
| lon_deg = -68.8
| mark = Orange ff8040 pog.svg
| marksize = 10
| link = Sarmiento Formation
}}
{{Location map~ | South America
| lat_deg = -35.0
| lon_deg = -70.4
| mark = Orange ff8040 pog.svg
| marksize = 10
| link = Abanico Formation
}}
}}
}}
Hondonadia is an extinct genus of Late Eocene to Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican) marsupials related to today's shrew opossums{{cn|date=July 2025}} and with similar features as the related Rosendolops. The type species Hondonadia feruglioi was described by Goin and Candela in 1998.[http://www.paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=276021 Hondonadia] in the Paleobiology Database In later years, five more species were recognized, of which Pascualdelphys fierroensis, described by Flynn and Wyss in 1999,Flynn & Wyss, 1999 that was in 2010 synonymized with Hondonadia.Goin et al., 2010
Description
It was a small animal, with estimates of the body weight of the mammal ranging from {{convert|27|to|93.3|g|oz}}. The species H. feruglioi and H. praecipitia were possibly larger. Its main diet probably consisted of seeds rather than insects.Zimicz, 2014, p.111 The type species Hondonadia feruglioi preserves at least four upper incisors (of which the posteriormost is the smallest), but the presence of five teeth cannot be ruled out. H. feruglioi also preserves a very large, subvertical C1.Beck, 2016, p.20
Fossil distribution
Fossils of the genus were found in the Tinguiririca fauna of the Abanico Formation of Chile, the Santa Rosa local fauna of the Yahuarango Formation in Amazonian Peru and in the Gran Barranca fauna of the Vera Member pertaining to the Sarmiento Formation in Argentina.[https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4825818.html Hondonadia] at Mindat.org
References
{{reflist|3}}
= Bibliography =
- {{citation |last=Beck |first=Robin M |year=2016 |title=The Skull of Epidolops ameghinoi from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Fauna, Southeastern Brazil, and the Affinities of the Extinct Marsupialiform Order Polydolopimorphia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309591438 |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |pages=1–43 |accessdate=2020-07-30}}
- {{citation |first=Natalia |last=Zimicz |year=2014 |title=New Paleogene Marsupials from the Amazon Basin of Eastern Peru |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261214596 |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=51 |pages=106–128 |doi=10.5710/AMEGH.20.12.2013.1493 |accessdate=2020-07-30}}
- {{citation |first1=Francisco Javier |last1=Goin |first2=María Alejandra |last2=Abello |first3=Laura |last3=Chornogubsky |year=2010 |title=Middle Tertiary marsupials from central Patagonia (early Oligocene of Gran Barranca): understanding South America's Grande Coupure in The Paleontology of Gran Barranca. Evolution and Environmental Change Through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume= |pages=69–105 |isbn=978-0-521-87241-6 |author1-link=Francisco Goin }}
- {{citation |first1=F. J. |last1=Goin |first2=A. M. |last2=Candela |year=2004 |title=New Paleogene Marsupials from the Amazon Basin of Eastern Peru |journal=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series |volume=40 |pages=15–60 |author1-link=Francisco Goin }}
- {{citation |first1=J. J. |last1=Flynn |first2=A. W. |last2=Wyss |year=1999 |title=New Marsupials from the Eocene-Oligocene transition of the Andean main range, Chile |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=533–549|doi=10.1080/02724634.1999.10011163 |bibcode=1999JVPal..19..533F }}
{{Metatheria|P.}}
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Category:Prehistoric marsupial genera
Category:Eocene mammals of South America
Category:Oligocene mammals of South America
Category:Golfo San Jorge Basin
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1998