Genus Pseudocricetodon Thaler, 1969

Allocricetodon Freudenthal, 1994: 12-15 . — de Bruijn et al. 2003: 61, 62.

TYPE SPECIES. — Pseudocricetodon montalbanensis Ŋaler, 1969 by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS. — (Combining the original diagnosis of Ŋaler 1969; Vianey-Liaud 1974; Dienemann 1987; de Bruijn et al. 2003; Kalthoff 2006): small to medium-sized cricetid; infra-orbitary foramen hystricomorph, a little pinched dorsally; flat palate (Vianey-Liaud 1974); lower incisors with highly derived enamel (type 7-8, Kalthoff 2006); lophodont molar pattern; main cusps and crests slender and usually straight, rarely irregular, separated by valleys with a flat bottom; wide anterocone on M1 and lingual border of M1 straight or slightly concave.

REMARK

Ŋe most abundant (144 teeth) Cricetidae of Saint- Privat-des-Vieux is assigned to Pseudocricetodon incertus (Schlosser, 1884) . Ŋe cricetid material from BoujacA, in the same sedimentary basin, had also been allocated to this species (Comte 1985). In his description of the material from the province of Teruel (Spain), Freudenthal (1994) had erected the genus Allocricetodon for medium-sized forms of the genus Pseudocricetodon Ŋaler, 1969 . Ŋe validity of this new genus is discussed by de Bruijn et al. (2003). In agreement with their conclusions, we consider here the genus Allocricetodon as synonymous to the genus Pseudocricetodon . Two taxa described by Freudenthal (1994) from the Oligo- cene of Mirambueno (Spain) can be identified in the Alès Basin: Pseudocricetodon (non Allocricetodon) incertus and Pseudocricetodon (non Allocricetodon) landroveri Freudenthal, 1994 . We compare the abundant population from Saint-Privat-des-Vieux (MP 26) with that of MIR4C, from Mirambueno (MP 26). We expand the comparison to the cricetids of younger localities: on the one hand, BoujacA (MP 27) in the Alès basin where P. incertus is also recorded and, on the other hand, MIR1 at Mirambueno (Teruel, Spain; MP 27) from which another species – Pseudocricetodon cornelii (Freudenthal, 1994) – has been described (Freudenthal 1994).