Predicrostonyx

Predicrostonyx
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene
Scientific classification Edit this 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

  1. ^ 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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