Metoldobotes Schlosser 1910 (elephant shrew)

Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae

Parent taxon: Macroscelidini according to L. Van Valen 1967

See also McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Macroscelides, Petrodromus, Petrosaltator

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry M (Jebel Qatrani Formation) (Oligocene of Egypt)

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