Predicrostonyx

Taxobox
name = Predicrostonyx
fossil_range = Early Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Arvicolinae
tribus = Dicrostonychini
genus = "Predicrostonyx"
genus_authority = Guthrie & Matthews, 1971 [ [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/108797.htm Tribe Dicrostonychini - Classification - Systema Naturae 2000 ] ]
species = "P. hopkinsi"
binomial = "Predicrostonyx hopkinsi"

"Predicrostonyx" is a genus of extinct rodent in the Cricetidae family.It contains only the species, Hopkins's Lemming, "Predicrostonyx hopkinsi", which is considered one of the earliest examples of collared lemmings.

References

*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.