Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Alternative combination: Ruscinomys hellenicus
Full reference: M. Freudenthal. 1970. A new Ruscinomys (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Tertiary (Pikermian) of Samos, Greece. American Museum Novitates 2402:1-10
Belongs to Byzantinia according to C. C. Black et al. 1980
See also Freudenthal 1970 and Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Sister taxa: Byzantinia bayraktepensis, Byzantinia dardanellensis, Byzantinia nikosi, Byzantinia ozansoyi, Byzantinia pikermiensis
Type specimen: AMNH 20766, a maxilla (right maxilla with M1-M3). Its type locality is Samos Quarry 4, which is in a Messinian terrestrial horizon in Greece.
Distribution:
• Miocene of Greece (2 collections), Turkey (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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