Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae

Alternative combination: Neoryctes qinlingensis

Full reference: Y. Tong. 1997. Middle Eocene Small Mammals from Liguanqiao Basin of Henan Province and Yuanqu Basin of Shanxi Province, Central China. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C 26:1-256

Belongs to Nuryctes according to A. V. Lopatin and A. O. Averianov 2004

See also Lopatin 2006 and Tong 2003

Sister taxa: Nuryctes alayensis, Nuryctes gobiensis

Type specimen: IVPP V10203, a mandible

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Shipigou (Eocene to Oligocene of China)

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