Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Synonym: Palurotrichus Ziegler 1985
Full reference: H. Filhol. 1890. Descripion d'un nouveau genre d'insectivore provenant des dépots de phosphate de Chaux du Quercy. Bulletin Societé philomatique de Paris 8(2):176-177
Parent taxon: Urotrichini according to M. Hugueney and O. Maridet 2017
See also Carroll 1988, Crochet 1974, Crochet 1995, Filhol 1890, van den Hoek Ostende 1989, Van Valen 1967 and Ziegler 2003
Sister taxa: Dymecodon, Percymygale, Pseudoparatalpa, Quyania, Tenuibrachiatum, Urotrichus
Subtaxa: Myxomygale antiqua Myxomygale asiaprima Myxomygale engesseri Myxomygale gracilis Myxomygale hutchisoni
Type: Myxomygale antiqua
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Germany (8), Greece (2), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Spain (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (3)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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