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Mesocricetus
Taxonomy
Mesocricetus was named by Nehring (1898). It is extant.
It was assigned to Cricetidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Cricetinae by Steppan et al. (2004) and Wilson and Reeder (2005).
It was assigned to Cricetidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Cricetinae by Steppan et al. (2004) and Wilson and Reeder (2005).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1898 | Mesocricetus Nehring p. 49 |
| 1997 | Mesocricetus McKenna and Bell |
| 2004 | Mesocricetus Steppan et al. p. 539 |
| 2005 | Mesocricetus Wilson and Reeder |
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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. Mesocricetus Nehring 1898
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Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse 1839 [Golden hamster]
†Mesocricetus primitivus de Bruijn et al. 1970
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ruscinian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.9 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Greece (Chalkidiki) | M. primitivus (191612) | |
| Turolian - Ruscinian | Greece (Xanthi) | M. primitivus (205296 205297) | |
| MN 13 | Greece (Rhodes) | M. primitivus (68046) | |
| Ruscinian | Turkey (Ankara) | M. primitivus (34370) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Turkey | M. auratus (39314) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Greece (Kalymnos island) | M. aureatus (34770) | |
| Pleistocene | Israel | M. auratus (225664) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Turkey (Central Anatolia) | M. sp. (34368) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Greece (Chios) | M. brandti (204077) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Turkey (Isparta) | M. sp. (230659) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece | M. newtoni (203847 204954) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Pella) | M. newtoni (204957) |