Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Synonyms: Paracricetodon kavakderensis Unay-Bayraktar 1989, Paracricetodon kodjayarmensis Unay-Bayraktar 1989
Belongs to Paracricetodon according to Hrubesh 1957
See also Unay-Bayraktar 1989 and van de Weerd et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Paracricetodon cadurcensis, Paracricetodon confluens, Paracricetodon gracilis, Paracricetodon spectabilis, Paracricetodon stojanovici, Paracricetodon walgeri, Paracricetodon wentgesi
Type specimens:
- Paracricetodon dehmi: Its type locality is Bernloch 1, which is in a MP 23 terrestrial horizon in Germany
- Paracricetodon kavakderensis: Its type locality is Kavakdere, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial claystone in the Lignite-Sandstone Formation of Turkey.
- Paracricetodon kodjayarmensis: Its type locality is Kocayarma, which is in an Oligocene channel claystone in the Lignite-Sandstone Formation of Turkey.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1 collection), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Switzerland (1), Turkey (4)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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