Perimys

{{Short description|Extinct genus of rodents}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early-Late Miocene (Colhuehuapian-Huayquerian)
~{{fossil range|21.0|6.8}}

| image = Perimys tooth.png

| image_caption = Left m1 and m2 of Perimys sp.

| taxon = Perimys

| authority = Ameghino, 1887

| type_species = †Perimys erutus

| type_species_authority = Ameghino, 1887

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *P. ameghinoi {{small|Scott 1905}}

• P. dissimilis {{small|Ameghino 1902}}
• P. erutus {{small|Ameghino 1887}}
• P. impactus {{small|Ameghino 1894}}
• P. incavatus {{small|Ameghino 1902}}
• P. incurvus {{small|Ameghino 1902}}
• P. intermedius {{small|Kramarz 2002}}
• P. oemulus {{small|Ameghino 1894}}
• P. onustus {{small|Ameghino 1887}}
• P. pacificus {{small|Ameghino 1894}}
• P. perpinguis {{small|Ameghino 1891}}
• P. planaris {{small|Ameghino 1891}}
• P. puellus {{small|Ameghino 1891}}
• P. pueraster {{small|Ameghino 1891}}
• P. scalabrinianus {{small|Ameghino 1889}}
• P. transversus {{small|Ameghino 1902}}

| synonyms = Sphodromys {{small|Ameghino 1887}}

}}

Perimys is an extinct genus of neoepiblemid rodent that lived from the Early to Late Miocene in what is now South America. Fossils have been found in the Cerro Bandera,{{Cite journal |last1=Kramarz |first1=Alejandro |last2=Garrido |first2=Alberto |last3=Forasiepi |first3=Analía |last4=Bond |first4=Mariano |last5=Tambussi |first5=Claudia |date=2005 |title=Stratigraphy and vertebrates (Aves and Mammalia) from the Cerro Bandera Formation, Early Miocene of Neuquén Province, Argentina. |url=http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V32n2-a06/html |journal=Revista Geológica de Chile |volume=32 |issue=2|doi=10.4067/S0716-02082005000200006|doi-access=free }} Cerro Boleadoras,{{Cite journal |last1=Vizcaino |first1=Sergio F. |last2=Bargo |first2=M. Susana |last3=Pérez |first3=M. Encarnación |last4=Aramendía |first4=Inés |last5=Cuitiño |first5=José I. |last6=Monsalvo |first6=Eduardo S. |last7=Vlachos |first7=Evangelos |last8=Noriega |first8=Jorge I. |last9=Kay |first9=Richard F. |date=2022-09-30 |title=Fossil vertebrates of the early-middle Miocene Cerro Boleadoras Formation, northwestern Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina |url=http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V49n3-3425 |journal=Andean Geology |language=en |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=382–422 |doi=10.5027/andgeoV49n3-3425 |issn=0718-7106|doi-access=free|bibcode=2022AndGe..49..382V }}50x50px Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License Ituzaingó, Santa Cruz,{{Cite journal |last=Kramarz |first=Alejandro |date=2014-06-08 |title=Roedores chinchilloideos (Hystricognathi) de la Formación Pinturas, Mioceno temprano-medio de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina |url=http://revista.macn.gob.ar/ojs/index.php/RevMus/article/view/9 |journal=Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales |series=Nueva Serie |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=167–180 |issn=1853-0400}} and Sarmiento Formations of Argentina,{{Cite book |last1=Madden |first1=Richard H. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oY7wkK6lV4cC&q=Colhuehuapian+rodents+from+Gran+Barranca+and+other+Patagonian+localities%3A+the+state+of+the+art.&pg=PA206 |title=The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change Through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia |last2=Carlini |first2=Alfredo A. |last3=Vucetich |first3=Maria Guiomar |last4=Kay |first4=Richard F. |date=2010-06-17 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87241-6 |language=en |chapter=Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art.}}

and the Galera,{{Cite journal |last1=McGrath |first1=Andrew J. |last2=Chick |first2=Jennifer |last3=Croft |first3=Darin A. |last4=Dodson |first4=Holly E. |last5=Flynn |first5=John J. |last6=Wyss |first6=André R. |date=2022-02-08 |title=Cavioids, Chinchilloids, and Erethizontoids (Hystricognathi, Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Early Miocene Pampa Castillo Fauna, Chile |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3984 |pages=1–46 |doi=10.1206/3984.1 |issn=0003-0082 |doi-access=free}} Santa Cruz{{Cite journal |last1=Bostelmann |first1=J. Enrique |last2=Roux |first2=Jacobous P. Le |last3=Vásquez |first3=Ana |last4=Gutiérrez |first4=Néstor M. |last5=Oyarzún |first5=José Luis |last6=Carreño |first6=Catalina |last7=Torres |first7=Teresa |last8=Otero |first8=Rodrigo |last9=Llanos |first9=Andrea |last10=Fanning |first10=C. Mark |last11=Hervé |first11=Francisco |date=2013-07-25 |title=Burdigalian deposits of the Santa Cruz Formation in the Sierra Baguales, Austral (Magallanes) Basin: Age, depositional environment and vertebrate fossils |url=http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V40n3-a04 |journal=Andean Geology |language=en |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=458–489 |doi=10.5027/andgeoV40n3-a04 |issn=0718-7106|doi-access=free|hdl=10533/138811 |hdl-access=free }} and Río Frías Formations of Chile.