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Kerosinia

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Taxonomy

Kerosinia was named by Unay-Bayraktar (1989). Its type is Kerosinia variabilis.

It was assigned to Adelomyarioninae by Unay-Bayraktar (1989); and to Pseudocricetodontinae by Maridet and Ni (2013).

Species

K. variabilis (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1989	Kerosinia Unay-Bayraktar
2013	Kerosinia Maridet and Ni

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Simplicidentata	()
order	Rodentia	Bowdich 1821
family	Cricetidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
subfamily	Pseudocricetodontinae	Engesser 1987
genus	Kerosinia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Kerosinia Unay-Bayraktar 1989

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†Kerosinia variabilis Unay-Bayraktar 1989

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

herbivoreo

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-26 14:04:46

Modified:

2005-08-26 16:04:46

Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Oligocene or 33.90000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Turkey	K. variabilis (182510 182511 182512)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Turkey (Tekirdağ)	Adelomyarioninae indet. (31605 31606)
Late/Upper Oligocene	27.3 - 23.04	Greece (Evros )	K. variabilis (196839)