Family Macroscelididae Bonaparte 1838 (elephant shrew)

Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae

Alternative spelling: Macroscelidae

Parent taxon: Macroscelidea according to A. Grossman and P. A. Holroyd 2009

See also Asher and Helgen 2010, Butler 1984, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Jaekel 1911, Nowak 1991, Schlosser 1877, Tabuce et al. 2001 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Adapisoricidae, Adunator, Afrohypselodontidae, Amphilemuridae, Apheliscidae, Litocherus, Louisinidae, Myohyracidae, Rhynchocyonidae

Subtaxa: Herodotiinae Macroscelidinae Mylomygalinae Namasenginae

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Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Kenya (1 collection), South Africa (6), Tanzania (2), Zambia (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)

• Pliocene of Kenya (1), South Africa (8)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (2)

• Miocene of Kenya (3), Namibia (1)

• Oligocene of Egypt (2)

• Eocene of Algeria (2), Libya (1), Namibia (3), Tunisia (2)

Total: 39 collections including 52 occurrences

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