Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae

Full reference: J. Hürzeler. 1944. Über einen dimyloiden Erinaceiden (Dimylechinus nov. gen.) aus dem Aquitanien der Limagne. Ecologae geologicae Helvetiae 37:460-467

Parent taxon: Erinaceidae according to R. L. Carroll 1988

See also Hürzeler 1944, McKenna and Holton 1967 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Adapisoricinae, Brachyericinae, Cedrocherus, Changlelestinae, Entomolestes, Erinaceinae, Galericinae, Galerix, Hylomyinae, Lantanotherium, Lanthanotherium, Litocherinae, Litolestes, Luchenus, Mellalechinus, Oncocherus, Palaeoscaptor, Silvacola

Subtaxa: Dimylechinus bernoullii

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Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Saulcet (Miocene of France)

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