Ernosorex Wang and Li 1990 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Changlelestidae

Full reference: B. Wang and C. Li. 1990. First Paleogene Mammalian Fauna from Northeast China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28(3):165-205

Parent taxon: Changlelestidae according to R. Ziegler 2009

See also Tong and Wang 1993 and Wang and Li 1990

Sister taxa: Changlelestes, Tupaiodontinae

Subtaxa: Ernosorex jilinensis

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Type: Ernosorex jilinensis

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Daboji Oil Shale Mine, Gongjitun Village (Eocene of China)

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