Cricetulodon

Cricetulodon Temporal range: 16–5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific 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

References

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.