Ocajila Macdonald 1963 (hedgehog)

Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae

Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238

Parent taxon: Galericini according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008

See also Lopatin 2006, Macdonald 1963, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Microgalericulus, Protogalericius, Schizogalerix, Thaiagymnura

Subtaxa: Ocajila macdonaldi Ocajila makpiyahe Ocajila rasmusseni

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Type: Ocajila makpiyahe

Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Harrisonian of United States (2: Montana, Nebraska collections)

• Arikareean of United States (6: California, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)

• Oligocene of United States (5: Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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