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Mesocricetus

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Mesocricetus is a genus of Old World hamsters, including the Syrian or golden hamster, the first hamster to be introduced as a domestic pet, and still the most popular species of hamster for that purpose.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocricetus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2438480	https://www.gbif.org/species/2438480
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41805	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41805

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : Mesocricetus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
family	Cricetidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
subfamily	Cricetinae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
genus	Mesocricetus	Nehring 1898

Scientific Name

Mesocricetus Nehring, 1898

Name Published In

Zool. Anz. vol.21 p.49

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mesocricetus	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Mesocricetus	genus	belongs to Cricetinae	stated with evidence	Steppan et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Common Name(s)

Golden Hamsters

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocricetus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mesocricetus aramaeus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mesocricetus auratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mesocricetus brandti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mesocricetus newtoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mesocricetus primitivus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Mesocricetus raddei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Mediocricetus Nehring, 1898	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : *Mediocricetus*
Semicricetus Nehring, 1898	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : *Semicricetus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1898	Mesocricetus Nehring p. 49
1997	Mesocricetus McKenna and Bell
2004	Mesocricetus Steppan et al. p. 539

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Steppan S. J., Adkins R. M., et al (2004) Phylogeny and divergence-date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes, Systematic Biology 53 4, 533-553

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott, 1966: null. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, 2nd edition. 810. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Superfamily Muroidea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 894-1531. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Zool. Anz., 21 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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