Cricetulodon Temporal range: 16–5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Cricetinae |
Genus: | †Cricetulodon Hartenberger, 1965 |
Species | |
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Cricetulodon is an extinct genus of muroid rodent named in 1965. It lived from the Middle Aragonian to the late Turolian. It is sometimes classified with its close relatives in the Cricetodon-Ruscinomys group, which lived in total for 17 million years from 20 million years ago to approximately 3 million years ago.
The genus includes the following species:
- Cricetulodon bugesiensis
- Cricetulodon hartenbergeri
- Cricetulodon lucentensis
- Cricetulodon meini
- Cricetulodon sabadellensis
References
- "PBDB Taxon".
- Hartenberger (1965) Bull.Soc.geol.Fr. (7) 7: 493.
- Silvia Pineda-Muñoz; Isaac Casanovas-Vilar; Daniel De Miguel; Aleksis Karme; Alistair R. Evans & Mikael Fortelius (2010). "Evolution of hypsodonty in a cricetid (Rodentia) lineage: preliminary results using patch analysis" (PDF). Cidaris. 30 (VIII): 247–252.
- Rodde J, Mein P (1988). "Scanning electron microscopy of molar enamel structure of cricetodontine neogene rodents". Arch. Oral Biol. 33 (10): 749–59. doi:10.1016/0003-9969(88)90009-X. PMID 3075451.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Cricetulodon | |
Cricetulodon bugesiensis | |
Cricetulodon lucentensis | |
Cricetulodon hartenbergeri |
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