FIGURE 2. Examples of Late Miocene Cricetids I: potential ancestors of the microtoid adaptation. 1-3: Democricetodon gaillardi (Schaub, 1934) from Sansan, middle Miocene, MN 6, France; 4, 5: Democricetodon cf. freisingensis Fahlbusch, 1964 from Rudabanya, early Vallésian, MN 9, Northeast Hungary; 6, 7: Kowalskia intermedia Fejfar, 1970 from Ivanovce at Tren?ín, late Ruscinian, MN 15, Western Slovakia; 8-11, 20: Rotundomys bressanus Mein, 1975 from Soblay (Ain), middle Turolian, upper level of MN 10, Southeast France; 12-14: Anatolomys teilhardi (Schaub, 1934) from Ertemte 2, inner Mogolia, late Turolian MN 13, China; 15: Copemys tenuis Lindsay, 1972 and 16: Copemys barstowensis Lindsay, 1972 from the Barstow Formation, middle Miocene, California, USA; 17: Copemys esmeraldensis Clark, Dawson and Wood, 1964 from the upper part of the Barstow sequence, Barstovian, California, and the Esmeralda Formation, Clarendonian, Nevada, both middle Miocene,USA; 18: Rotundomys sabadelliensis (Hartenberger, 1966) from Can Llobateres, early Vallésian, upper level MN 9, Spain; 19: Rotundomys montisrotundi (Schaub, 1944) from the lignites of Montoulieres, Hérault, middle Turolian, lower level of MN 10, France. – 1-16, 18ab, 19ab, 20ab: occlusal views of the M1 (1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15), M1-3 (18b, 19b, 20b), m1 (2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16) and m1-3 (18a, 19a, 20a); 3, 14, 17, 18c, 19c, 20c: buccal views. All figured as left molars; not to scale.