Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae

Full reference: J. L. Leconte. 1848. Notice of five new species of fossil Mammalia from Illinois. American Journal of Science and Arts 5:102-106

Parent taxon: Talpidae according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902 and Leconte 1848

Sister taxa: Asthenoscapter, Chrysochlorina, Desmana, Desmaninae, Desmanodon, Domninoides, Entomodon, Eotalpa, Galeospalax, Geolabis, Hugueneya, Hyporyssus, Mioscalops, Mogera, Mongolopala, Neurotrichus, Oreotalpa, Parascalops, Parascaptor, Proscalopinae, Quadrodens, Scalopinae, Scaptochirus, Scaptogale, Soricina, Suleimaninae, Talpa, Talpina, Talpinae, Tegulariscaptor, Tenrecina, Tupaina, Uropsilinae

Subtaxa: Anomodon snyderi

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Type: Anomodon snyderi

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Galena (Snyder Collection) (Quaternary of Illinois)

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