Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1929. A New and Remarkable Hedgehog from the Later Tertiary of Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 18(4):93-102
Parent taxon: Brachyericinae according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Gould 1995, Korth and Evander 2016, Matthew 1929, McKenna and Holton 1967, Rich 1981 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Brachyerix, Exallerix, Postexallerix, Synexallerix
Subtaxa: Metechinus amplior Metechinus fergusoni Metechinus nevadensis
Type: Metechinus nevadensis
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), United States (32: California, Colorado, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence
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