Predicrostonyx
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Predicrostonyx Temporal range: Early Pleistocene
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
Tribe: | Dicrostonychini |
Genus: | †Predicrostonyx Guthrie & Matthews, 1971[1] |
Species: | †P. hopkinsi
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Binomial name | |
†Predicrostonyx hopkinsi Guthrie & Matthews, 1971
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Predicrostonyx hopkinsi is an extinct rodent in the family Cricetidae, and is considered one of the earliest examples of collared lemmings.
References[]
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Categories:
- Dicrostonychini
- Prehistoric rodent genera
- Extinct rodents
- Pleistocene genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1971
- Arvicolinae stubs