Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae

Full reference: A. Grossman and P. A. Holroyd. 2009. Miosengi butleri, gen. et sp. nov., (Macroscelidea) from the Kalodirr Member, Lothidok Formation, early Miocene of Kenya. Journal of Paleontology 29(3):957-960

Parent taxon: Macroscelidinae according to A. Grossman and P. A. Holroyd 2009

See also Senut and Pickford 2021

Sister taxa: Elephantulini, Macroscelidini, Pronasilio, Rhynchocyonini

Subtaxa: Miosengi butleri

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Type: Miosengi butleri

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: found only at Kalodirr, west of Lake Turkana (Miocene of Kenya)

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