Cricetulodon

Cricetulodon
Temporal range: 16–5 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Cricetinae
Genus: †Cricetulodon
Hartenberger, 1965
Species[1]
  • Cricetulodon bugesiensis
  • Cricetulodon hartenbergeri
  • Cricetulodon lucentensis
  • Cricetulodon meini
  • Cricetulodon sabadellensis

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
  1. ^ "PBDB Taxon".
  2. ^ Hartenberger (1965) Bull.Soc.geol.Fr. (7) 7: 493.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.