Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Full reference: E.G. Kordikova and H. de Bruijn. 2001. Early Miocene rodents from the Aktau Mountains (South-Eastern Kazakhstan). Seckenbergiana lethaea 81(2):391-405

Belongs to Karydomys according to E.G. Kordikova and H. de Bruijn 2001

Sister taxa: Karydomys boskosi, Karydomys debruijni, Karydomys symeonidisi, Karydomys wigharti

Type specimen: N KE-Akt 34, a tooth (M1 sin.). Its type locality is Aktau I, which is in a MN 4 terrestrial horizon in the Chul'adyr Formation of Kazakstan.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore