Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Full reference: V. Fahlbusch. 1964. Die Cricetiden (Mamm.) der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns (Cricetids of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of Bavaria). Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften; mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse; Abhandlungen, neue Folge 118:1-136
Parent taxon: Cricetinae according to P. Mein and M. Freudenthal 1971
See also Baskin 1978, Engesser 1979, Fahlbusch 1964, Lalaï 1986, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pickford et al. 2000 and Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005
Sister taxa: Apocricetus, Collimys, Cricetini, Cricetinus, Cricetulodon, Cricetulus, Leidymini, Mesocricetus, Neacomys, Neocricetodon, Peromyscini, Phodopus, Rotundomys, Symmetrodontomys
Subtaxa: Democricetodon affinis Democricetodon brevis Democricetodon crassus Democricetodon cretensis Democricetodon franconicus Democricetodon freisingensis Democricetodon gaillardi Democricetodon haltmari Democricetodon hispanicus Democricetodon kaonou Democricetodon khani Democricetodon minor Democricetodon mutilus Democricetodon romieviensis Democricetodon similis Democricetodon sulcatus Democricetodon vindoboniensis
Type: Cricetodon minus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Germany (1 collection)
• Miocene of China (6), France (21), Germany (43), Greece (8), Hungary (2), India (1), Mongolia (2), Pakistan (16), Poland (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Slovakia (2), South Korea (1), Spain (18), Switzerland (27), Thailand (1), Turkey (7)
• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Pakistan (1)
Total: 167 collections including 261 occurrences
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