Urotrichus Temminck 1841 (greater Japanese shrew-mole)
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Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Parent taxon: Urotrichini according to D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder 2005
See also Carroll 1988 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Dymecodon, Myxomygale, Percymygale, Proscapanus, Pseudoparatalpa, Quyania, Tenuibrachiatum
Subtaxa: Urotrichus dolichochir Urotrichus giganteus Urotrichus talpoides
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (3 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Germany (1), Greece (1), Slovakia (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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