Galerix symeonidisi Doukas 1986 (hedgehog)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae

Full reference: C. S. Doukas. 1986. The mammals of the Lower Miocene of Aliveri (Island of Evia, Greece). Part. 5. The insectivores. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 89(1):15-38

Belongs to Galerix according to C. S. Doukas 1986

See also Crespo et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Galerix africanus, Galerix aurelianensis, Galerix exilis, Galerix kostakii, Galerix remmerti, Galerix rutlandae, Galerix saratji, Galerix stehlini, Galerix uenayae, Galerix wesselsae

Type specimen: AMPG AL 3036, a tooth (M2 sin.). Its type locality is Aliveri, which is in a Burdigalian terrestrial horizon in Greece.

Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Germany (3 collections), Greece (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (7), Switzerland (2)

Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence

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