Cricetulodon

Cricetulodon; Temporal range: 16–5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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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[1] Hartenberger (1965) Bull.Soc.geol.Fr. (7) 7: 493.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

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