Predicrostonyx

{{Short description|Extinct genus of rodents}}

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| fossil_range = Early Pleistocene

| display_parents = 3

| genus = Predicrostonyx

| parent_authority = Guthrie & Matthews, 1971[http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/108797.htm Tribe Dicrostonychini – Classification – Systema Naturae 2000]

| species = hopkinsi

| authority = 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

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  • 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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Category:Dicrostonychini

Category:Monotypic prehistoric rodent genera

Category:Extinct rodents

Category:Pleistocene genus extinctions

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1971

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