Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Parent taxon: Desmaninae according to B. Engesser 1972
See also Cailleux et al. 2024, Carroll 1988, Crochet 1986, Engesser 1980 and van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar 2006
Sister taxa: Galemys, Geomana, Mygalea, Mygalinia, Paratalpa
Subtaxa: Desmanella amasyae Desmanella cingulata Desmanella compacta Desmanella compactus Desmanella crusafonti Desmanella dubia Desmanella engesseri Desmanella fejfari Desmanella gardiolensis Desmanella gudrunae Desmanella quinquecuspidata Desmanella rietscheli Desmanella sickenbergi Desmanella stehlini
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Villafranchian of Greece (1 collection)
• Pliocene of France (3), Greece (3), Spain (1)
• MN 13 of Türkiye (2)
• Turolian of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Austria (7), China (1), Czechia (1), France (2), Germany (8), Greece (2), Hungary (2), Serbia (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Türkiye (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (3), Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 51 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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