Subfamily Desmaninae Thomas 1912 (mole)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae

Synonym: Myogalina Mivart 1871

Parent taxon: Talpidae according to E. Martín-Suárez et al. 2001

See also Mors et al. 2000 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Anomodon, Asthenoscapter, Chrysochlorina, Desmana, 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: Desmanella Galemys Geomana Mygalea Mygalinia Paratalpa

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Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), the Netherlands (2), Portugal (1), Spain (2), Türkiye (1)

• MN 16 of Austria (1), France (1), Poland (2)

• Villafranchian of Greece (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Hungary (1)

• Pliocene of France (4), Germany (2), Greece (3), Moldova (1), Poland (1), Romania (3), Spain (1), Türkiye (4), Ukraine (1)

• MN 13 of Türkiye (2)

• Turolian of Greece (1)

• Miocene of Austria (7), China (1), Czechia (1), France (3), Germany (20), Greece (2), Hungary (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (4), Türkiye (3)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1), France (4), Germany (6), Kazakhstan (2), Spain (1)

Total: 101 collections including 110 occurrences

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