Schizogalerix Engesser 1980 (hedgehog)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae

Full reference: B. Engesser. 1980. Insectivora und Chiroptera (Mammalia) aus dem Neogen der Türkei. Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Abhandlungen 102:46-149

Parent taxon: Galericini according to B. Engesser 1980

See also Doukas 1989, Lopatin 2006 and Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005

Sister taxa: Microgalericulus, Ocajila, Protogalericius, Thaiagymnura

Subtaxa: Schizogalerix anatolica Schizogalerix duolebulejinensis Schizogalerix evae Schizogalerix iliensis Schizogalerix macedonica Schizogalerix moedlingensis Schizogalerix pasalarensis Schizogalerix pristinus Schizogalerix voesendorfensis Schizogalerix zapfei

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Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Austria (1 collection), Ukraine (1)

• MN 13 of Turkey (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (4), China (1), Greece (11), Hungary (2), Morocco (1), Romania (1), Spain (1), Turkey (9)

Total: 34 collections including 39 occurrences

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