Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Proscalopidae
Full reference: K. M. Reed. 1961. The Proscalopinae, a new subfamily of talpid insectivores. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 125(14):473-494
Parent taxon: Proscalopidae according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Barnosky 1981, Carroll 1988, Korth et al. 2022, Reed 1961 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Mesoscalops, Proscalops
Subtaxa: Oligoscalops galbreathi
Type: Oligoscalops whitmanensis
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (8: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming collections)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
• Eocene of United States (4: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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