Mongoloscapter Lopatin 2002 (mole)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae

Full reference: A. V. Lopatin. 2002. An Oligocene Mole (Talpidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 36(5):531-534

Parent taxon: Scaptonychini according to A. V. Lopatin 2002

Sister taxa: Geotrypus, Mygatalpa, Scaptonyx

Subtaxa: Mongoloscapter zhegalloi

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Type: Mongoloscapter zhegalloi

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at left side of Taatsiin Gol valley (Oligocene of Mongolia)

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