| Osborn's Key Mouse[1] Temporal range: Pleistocene |
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Prehistoric[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | †Heptaxodontidae |
| Genus: | †Clidomys |
| Species: | †C. osborni |
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| Clidomys osborni (Anthony, 1920) |
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The Osborn's Key Mouse (Clidomys osborni), also known as the Larger Jamaican Giant Hutia, is a now extinct species of large rodent in the Heptaxodontidae family.[3] It was found on the island of Jamaica and likely went extinct before the end of the Pleistocene.[2]
Clidomys parvus was thought to be a smaller and separate species from C. osborni but later investigation have shown that they may belong to the same species. The distinction is thought to have originated from the examination of juvenile specimens of C. osborni.[2]