A new early Late Oligocene (MP 26) continental vertebrate fauna from Saint-Privat-des-Vieux (Alès Basin, Gard, Southern France)
Author
Vianey-Liaud, Monique
Author
Comte, Bernard
Author
Marandat, Bernard
Author
Peigné, Stéphane
Author
Rage, Jean-Claude
Author
Sudre, Jean
text
Geodiversitas
2014
2014-12-26
36
4
565
622
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2014n4a4
journal article
6390
10.5252/g2014n4a4
8bc26961-9853-4113-a63d-4cf691aa7100
1638-9395
4538625
Genus
Eucricetodon
Thaler, 1969
TYPE SPECIES
. —
Eucricetodon collatus
(
Schaub, 1925
)
by monotypy.
DIAGNOSIS. — “Differs from
Pseudocricetodon
by its greater size, the clearly bunodont teeth, the crests generally simple, the strongly reduced posterior lobe of lower M/3, and the convex labial edge of upper M1/. Anterocone of M1/ generally simple, occasionally tending to split somewhat. Posterior arm of the hypoconid more or less developed, occasionally lacking. Anteroconid always simple” (Vianey-Liaud 1972: 4).
REMARK
Beyond the successive discussions about the definition of the genus
Eucricetodon
(e.g.,
Comte 1985
; Dienemann 1987;
Freudenthal 1996
;
Hugueney 1999
; de
Bruijn
et al.
2003
;
Kalthoff 2006
;
Gomes Rodrigues
et al.
2013
), it appears that the genus is probably polyphyletic, including various lineages.