Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Proscalopidae
Full reference: K. M. Reed. 1961. The Proscalopinae, a new subfamily of talpid insectivores. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 125(14):473-494
Parent taxon: Talpoidea according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Barnosky 1981, Carroll 1988 and Korth et al. 2022
Sister taxon: Talpidae
Subtaxa: Mesoscalops Oligoscalops Proscalops
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), United States (23: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (6: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (8: Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Wyoming)
• Oligocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan), United States (43: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
• Eocene of United States (5: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 89 collections including 98 occurrences