Karydomys

Karydomys is a genus of fossil Eurasian hamster-like rodents in the subfamily Democricetodontinae from the Langhian stage in the middle Miocene epoch.

Karydomys
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: †Democricetodontinae
Genus: †Karydomys
Theocharopoulos, 2000
Type species
Karydomys symeonidisi
Species

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Species
  • Karydomys boskosi, C.D. Theocharopoulos 2000, found in Greece
  • Karydomys debruijni, found in China[1]
  • Karydomys dzerzhinskii, Kordikova & De Bruijn, 2001, found in Kazakhstan[2]
  • Karydomys symeonidisi
  • Karydomys wigharti, found in Germany[3]
  • Karydomys zapfei

References
  1. Maridet, Olivier; Wu, Wen-Yu; Ye, Jie; Bi, Shun-Dong; Ni, Xi-Jun; Meng, Jin (September 2011). "Early Miocene cricetids (Rodentia) from the Junggar basin (Xinjiang, China) and their biochronological implications". Geobios. 44 (5): 445–459. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2010.09.004.
  2. Kordikova, Elena G.; Bruijn, Hans (December 2001). "Early miocene rodents from the Aktau Mountains (South-Eastern Kazakhstan)". Senckenbergiana Lethaea. 81 (2): 391–405. doi:10.1007/BF03042791.
  3. Mors, Thomas; Kalthoff, Daniela C. (November 2004). "A new species of Karydomys (Rodentia, Mammalia) and a systematic re-evaluation of this rare Eurasian Miocene hamster". Palaeontology. 47 (6): 1387–1405. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00413.x.


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