Cricetulodon

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Cricetulodon is an extinct genus of muroid rodent named in 1965.[1] It lived in the Neogene period, in France and Spain.[2] It is sometimes classified with its close relatives in the Cricetodon-Ruscinomys group, which lived in total for 17 million of years from 20 million years ago to approximately 3 million years ago.[3] It is the genus of the species bugesiensis, hartenbergeri, lucentensis, meini and sabadellensis.

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  1. ^ Hartenberger (1965) Bull.Soc.geol.Fr. (7) 7: 493.
  2. ^ Jaeger JJ, Hartenberger JL (1989). "Diversification and extinction patterns among Neogene perimediterranean mammals". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 325 (1228): 401–20. doi:10.1098/rstb.1989.0096. PMID 2574884. 
  3. ^ Rodde J, Mein P (1988). "Scanning electron microscopy of molar enamel structure of cricetodontine neogene rodents". Arch. Oral Biol. 33 (10): 749–59. doi:10.1016/0003-9969(88)90009-X. PMID 3075451. 

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