Latitudinal range: -24.5° to -23.7°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (1)

Found in 3 samples

Brazil: Caucaia do Alto (pitfall traps), Barra Grande, Abismo Iguatemi (Late Pleistocene)

See also Phyllomys nigrispinus, Phyllomys sp.