Abundance: 0.05 to 53.78% (median 3.85%)

Latitudinal range: -29.5° to 18.4°

Habitats: (16), boreal forest/taiga (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (7), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (6), tropical/subtropical savanna (3)

Found in 33 samples

Cameroon: Shum Laka rock shelter (Lower Horizon; ochre ash) (Holocene), Shum Laka rock shelter (Upper Horizon; ochre ash) (Holocene), Shum Laka rock shelter (Lower Horizon; gray ash) (Holocene), Shum Laka rock shelter (Middle/Upper Horizon; gray ash) (Holocene)

Ghana: Mole National Park

Malawi: Malowa (Holocene)

Mali: Tongo Maaré Diabal (Horizon 3) (Holocene), Tongo Maaré Diabal (Horizon 4) (Holocene), Tongo Maaré Diabal (Horizon 5) (Holocene)

Mauritania: Dhar Tichitt Site 38 (Holocene)

Nigeria: Zaria, Gajiganna A (Holocene)

Republic of the Congo: Kouilou Département, Forestry Management Unit Ngombé

Senegal: Drambos Cave, Diouboye (Holocene)

Sierra Leone: Saama (Site 4)

South Africa: Sibudu Cave (Pinkish Grey Sand) (Late Pleistocene)

Tanzania: Zaraninge Forest (dry season), Zaraninge Forest (wet season), Mwanihana, Uzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve (2013 - 2014), Mwanihana Forest (2013), Kuumbi Cave (Trench 10, Phase 1b) (Holocene), Kuumbi Cave (Trench 10, Phase 2) (Pleistocene - Holocene), Kuumbi Cave (Trench 10, Phase 3) (Late Pleistocene), Kuumbi Cave (Trench 10, Phase 4) (Late Pleistocene)

Togo: Fazao-Malfakassa National Park (dry season), Fazao-Malfakassa National Park (wet season)

Uganda: Lunyo Forest, Enkombe Sawmill, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Nile Delta

See also Cricetomys emini, Cricetomys gambianus, Cricetomys sp.