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: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| 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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edit- ↑ 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.