Cricetulodon
| Cricetulodon Temporal range: 16–5 Ma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Cricetulodon Hartenberger, 1965 |
Cricetulodon is an extinct genus of muroid rodent named in 1965.[1] It lived from the Middle Aragonian to the late Turolian.[2] 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.[3]
The genus includes the following species:
- Cricetulodon bugesiensis
- Cricetulodon hartenbergeri
- Cricetulodon lucentensis
- Cricetulodon meini
- Cricetulodon sabadellensis
References
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Cricetulodon at the Paleobiology Database
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