Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Amphilemuridae
Full reference: B. Patterson and P. O. McGrew. 1937. A soricid and two erinaceids from the White River Oligocene [Colorado]. Field Museum of Natural History, Geological Series 6(18):245-272
Parent taxon: Dormaaliidae according to M. J. Novacek et al. 1985
See also Gunnell et al. 2008, Korth et al. 2022, Patterson and McGrew 1937 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Alsaticopithecus, Amphilemur, Amphilemurinae, Gesneropithex, Hylomysoidinae, Macrocranion, Neomatronella, Pholidocercus, Zionodon
Subtaxa: Ankylodon annectens Ankylodon progressus
Type: Ankylodon annectens
Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming collections)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (9: Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
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