Tenuicricetodon
| Tenuicricetodon Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | †Eucricetodontinae |
| Genus: | †Tenuicricetodon |
| Species: | †T. arcemis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tenuicricetodon arcemis Maridet et al., 2025
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Tenuicricetodon is an extinct genus of cricetid rodent belonging to the subfamily Eucricetodontinae that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.
Distribution
Tenuicricetodon arcemis is known from fossils found in Early Oligocene deposits in Romania.[1]
References
- ^ Maridet, Olivier; Codrea, Vlad A.; Fărcaș, Cristina; Solomon, Alexandru A.; Venczel, Márton; Tissier, Jérémy (3 July 2025). "The record of cricetid rodents across the Eocene–Oligocene transition in Transylvania, Romania: implications for the "Grande Coupure" at European scale". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 70 (2): 291–327. doi:10.4202/app.01234.2024. Retrieved 19 October 2025 – via Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.