Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Parent taxon: Uropsilinae according to B. Engesser 1980
See also Carroll 1988, Crochet 1986, Engesser 1972 and van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar 2006
Sister taxa: Gaillardia, Mystipterus, Theratiskos, Uropsilus
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
Type: Desmanella stehlini
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of France (3 collections), Greece (4), Spain (1)
• MN 13 of Turkey (2)
• Miocene of Austria (7), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (8), Greece (3), Hungary (2), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Turkey (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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