Cricetulodon lucentensis

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Cricetulodon lucentensis
Temporal occurrence
Upper Miocene (Middle Turolian )
7.75 to 7.0 million years
Locations
Systematics
Subordination : Mouse relatives (Myomorpha)
Superfamily : Mice-like (Muroidea)
Family : Burrowers (Cricetidae)
Subfamily : Hamster (Cricetinae)
Genre : Cricetulodon
Type : Cricetulodon lucentensis
Scientific name
Cricetulodon lucentensis
( Freudenthal et al., 1991)

Cricetulodon lucentensis is anextinct species of the mouse species assigned tothe genus Cricetulodon and known from the Upper Miocene of Spain .

Body features

Cricetulodon lucentensis has three molars in each half of the jaw . The first mandibular molar is about 2.14 millimeters long and 1.31 millimeters wide, the anteroconid is simple. The upper third molar and the lower third molar are small. Protocon and protoconid, and sometimes the hypoconid, can be separated from the tooth edge by a differently developed cingulum .

Distribution, fossil finds and systematics

Location of Cricetulodon lucentensis .

Cricetulodon lucentensis is known from the middle Turolian of Spain 7.75 to 7.0 million years ago.

The type specimen with the inventory number RGM 404677 is the first molar of a right half of the lower jaw. This and two other specimens were discovered near Crevillente ( 38 ° 15 ′  N , 0 ° 48 ′  W ) in the province of Alicante .

Matthijs Freudenthal , José Ignacio Lacomba and Elvira Martín-Suárez describe the species as Neocricetodon lucentensis in 1991 . Freudenthal et al . (1998) assign it to the genus Cricetulodon .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cricetulodon lucentensis ("Morphology: Measurements"). In: The Palaeontology Database . The information relates to the first molar of a right half of the lower jaw.
  2. ↑ Freudenthal et al . 1991. Quoted in: Cricetulodon lucentensis . ("Morphology: Diagnosis") In: The Paleobiology Database .
  3. ↑ Cricetulodon lucentensis . ("Age range and history") In: The Paleobiology Database .
  4. ↑ a b Cricetulodon lucentensis . ("Taxonomic history") In: The Paleobiology Database .
  5. ↑ Crevillente 5: MN 12, Alicante ; Crevillente 8: MN 12, Alicante ; Crevillente 17: MN 12, Alicante . In: The Paleobiology Database .
  6. ↑ Freudenthal et al . 1991, p. 37. Quoted in: Cricetulodon lucentensis . (“Synonymy”) In: The Paleobiology Database .

literature

  • Crevillente 5: MN 12, Alicante . In: The Paleobiology Database . ( Record [accessed September 23, 2007]).
  • Crevillente 8: MN 12, Alicante . In: The Paleobiology Database . ( Record [accessed September 23, 2007]).
  • Crevillente 17: MN 12, Alicante . In: The Paleobiology Database . ( Record [accessed September 23, 2007]).
  • Cricetulodon lucentensis . In: The Paleobiology Database . ( Record [accessed September 23, 2007]).
  • Matthijs Freudenthal, José Ignacio, Elvira Martín-Suárez: The Cricetidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Miocene of Crevillente (prov. Alicante, Spain) . In: Scripta Geologica . tape 96 , 1991, ISSN  0375-7587 , pp. 9-46 ( repository.naturalis.nl ).
  • Matthijs Freudenthal, Pierre Mein, Elvira Martín-Suárez: Revision of Late Miocene and Pliocene Cricetinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Spain and France . In: Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona . tape 7 , 1998, ISSN  1130-4995 , pp. 11–93 ( abstract (memento of June 27, 2007 in the Padicat web archive)).