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Pappocricetodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4828524	https://www.gbif.org/species/4828524
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	100600	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=100600

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Muridae : Pappocricetodon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : Pappocricetodon

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	Pappocricetodontinae	Tong 1997
genus	Pappocricetodon	Tong Yongsheng 1992

Scientific Name

Pappocricetodon Tong Yongsheng, 1992

Name Published In

Vertebr Palasiat 30 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pappocricetodon	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	stated with evidence	Tong, 1992
Pappocricetodon	genus	belongs to Pappocricetodontinae	stated with evidence	Tong, 1997
Pappocricetodon	genus	belongs to Pappocricetodontinae	stated without evidence	de Bruijn et al., 2003
Pappocricetodon	genus	belongs to Pappocricetodontinae	stated with evidence	Gomes Rodrigues et al., 2010
Pappocricetodon	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	stated without evidence	Li, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

Y. Tong. 1992. Pappocricetodon, a pre-Oligocene cricetid genus (Rodentia) from Central China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 30(1):1-16

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cricetodon schaubi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pappocricetodon antiquus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	48.6 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Pappocricetodon kazakstanicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Pappocricetodon neimongolensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Pappocricetodon rencunensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Pappocricetodon schaubi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Pappocricetodon siziwangqiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1992	Pappocricetodon Tong
1997	Pappocricetodon Tong
2003	Pappocricetodon de Bruijn et al. p. 69
2010	Pappocricetodon Gomes Rodrigues et al.
2012	Pappocricetodon Li

References

Tong Y. (1992) Pappocricetodon, a pre-Oligocene cricetid genus (Rodentia) from Central China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 30 1, 1-16

Tong Y. (1997) Middle Eocene Small Mammals from Liguanqiao Basin of Henan Province and Yuanqu Basin of Shanxi Province, Central China, Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C 26, 1-256

de Bruijn H., Unay E., et al (2003) A rodent assemblage from the Eo/Oligocene boundary interval near Süngülü, Lesser Caucasus, Turkey, Coloquios de Paleontología, Volumen Extraordinario 1, 47-76

Gomes Rodrigues H., Marivaux L., et al (2010) Phylogeny and systematic revision of Eocene Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Central and East Asia: on the origin of cricetid rodents, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48 3, 259-268

Li Q. (2012) Middle Eocene cricetids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 50 3, 237-244

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

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Vertebr Palasiat 30 (1) - 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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