Cricetulodon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Cricetinae |
Genus: | †Cricetulodon Hartenberger, 1965 |
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Cricetulodon is an extinct genus of muroid rodent named in 1965.[2] It lived from the Middle Aragonian to the late Turolian.[3] 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.[4]
The genus includes the following species:
- Cricetulodon bugesiensis
- Cricetulodon hartenbergeri
- Cricetulodon lucentensis
- Cricetulodon meini
- Cricetulodon sabadellensis
References
[edit]- ^ "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.