Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Parent taxon: Cricetinae according to K. Vasileiadou and G. D. Koufos 2005
See also Baskin 1978
Sister taxa: Apocricetus, Collimys, Cricetinus, Cricetulodon, Cricetulus, Leidymini, Mesocricetus, Neacomys, Neocricetodon, Peromyscini, Phodopus, Rotundomys, Symmetrodontomys
Subtaxa: Cricetus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (10), Hungary (21), Italy (11), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), Romania (13), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (2)
• Pliocene of Kazakhstan (1), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• MN 13 of Greece (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Greece (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (5)
Total: 90 collections including 96 occurrences