Geotrypus tomerdingensis Tobien 1939 (mole)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Talpidae

Alternative combination: Talpa tomerdingensis

Full reference: H., Tobien. 1939. Die Insektenfresser und Nagetieree aus der aquitanen Spaltenfüllung bei Tomerdingen (Ulmer Alb). Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Feiburg um Breisgau. 36:159-180

Belongs to Geotrypus according to J.H. Hutchison 1974

See also Tobien 1939

Sister taxa: Geotrypus acutidentatus, Geotrypus antiquus, Geotrypus copernici, Geotrypus ehrensteinensis, Geotrypus montisasini, Geotrypus oschiriensis

Type specimen: SMNS unnumbered, a limb element (Humerus dex.)

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Tomerdingen 2 (Miocene of Germany)

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