Neurotrichus polonicus Skoczen 1980 (shrew mole)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Talpidae

Full reference: S. Skoczen. 1980. Scaptonychini Van Valen, 1967, Urotrichini and Scalopini Dobson, 1883 (Insectivora, Mammalia) in the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Poland. Acta Zoologica Cracoviense 24(9):411-448

Belongs to Neurotrichus according to S. Skoczen 1980

Sister taxa: Neurotrichus gibbsii, Neurotrichus skoczeni

Type specimen: ISEZ PAN MF/1016/1, a mandible (dext. with p4-m2). Its type locality is Kadzielnia, which is in a MN 17 cave horizon in Poland.

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Kadzielnia

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