Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Ordo: Rodentia
Subordo: Myomorpha
Superfamilia: Muroidea
Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: †Democricetodontinae
Genus: Karydomys
Karydomys is a genus of fossil Eurasian hamster-like rodents in the subfamily Democricetodontinae from the Langhian stage in the middle Miocene epoch.
Species
* Karydomys boskosi, C.D. Theocharopoulos 2000, found in Greece
* Karydomys dzerzhinskii, Kordikova & De Bruijn, 2001, found in Kazakhstan[1]
* Karydomys symeonidisi
* Karydomys wigharti, found in Germany[2]
* Karydomys zapfei
References
1. ^ Early Miocene rodents from the Aktau Mountains (South-Eastern Kazakhstan). Kordikova, E.G. & Bruijn, H. de. 2001. Senckenbergiana lethaea 81(2):391-405
2. ^ A new species of Karydomys (Rodentia, Mammalia) and a systematic re-evaluation of this rare Eurasian Miocene hamster. Thomas Mörs & Daniela C. Kalthoff, Palaeontology, Volume 47 Issue 6, Pages 1387 - 1405, 2004
