Predicrostonyx
Extinct genus of rodents
Predicrostonyx Temporal range: Early Pleistocene | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
Tribe: | Dicrostonychini |
Genus: | †Predicrostonyx Guthrie & Matthews, 1971[1] |
Species: | †P. hopkinsi |
Binomial name | |
†Predicrostonyx hopkinsi Guthrie & Matthews, 1971 |
Predicrostonyx hopkinsi is an extinct rodent in the family Cricetidae, and is considered one of the earliest examples of collared lemmings.
References
- ^ Tribe Dicrostonychini – Classification – Systema Naturae 2000
- 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.
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