Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Parent taxon: Talpidae according to T. L. Yates and D. J. Schmidly 1975
See also Alroy 2002, Carroll 1988, Eshelman et al. 2025, Hay 1930, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Anomodon, Asthenoscapter, Chrysochlorina, Desmana, Desmaninae, Desmanodon, Domninoides, Entomodon, Eotalpa, Galeospalax, Geolabis, Hugueneya, Hyporyssus, Mioscalops, Mogera, Mongolopala, Neurotrichus, Oreotalpa, Parascaptor, Proscalopinae, Quadrodens, Scalopinae, Scaptochirus, Scaptogale, Soricina, Suleimaninae, Talpa, Talpina, Talpinae, Tegulariscaptor, Tenrecina, Tupaina, Uropsilinae
Subtaxa: Parascalops breweri Parascalops fossilis Parascalops grayensis
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (17: Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia collections)
• Pliocene of Poland (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (2: Nebraska, Tennessee)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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