Tenuicricetodon

Tenuicricetodon; Temporal range: Early Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	† Eucricetodontinae
Genus:	† Tenuicricetodon
Species:	†T. arcemis
Binomial name
	†Tenuicricetodon arcemis; Maridet et al., 2025

Last updated October 22, 2025

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.

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[1] 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.

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