Tenuicricetodon is an extinct genus of cricetid rodent belonging to the subfamily Eucricetodontinae that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.

Tenuicricetodon
Temporal range: Early Oligocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Eucricetodontinae
Genus: Tenuicricetodon
Species:
T. arcemis
Binomial name
Tenuicricetodon arcemis
Maridet et al., 2025

Distribution

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Tenuicricetodon arcemis is known from fossils found in Early Oligocene deposits in Romania.[1]

References

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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.