†family Nyctitheriidae Simpson 1928 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae

Parent taxon: Soricoidea according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008

See also Carroll 1988, Gazin 1969, Hooker 1986, Hooker 1996, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Lillegraven and McKenna 1986, Lopatin 2006, McKenna and Bell 1997, Rose et al. 2012 and Tabuce et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Apternodontidae, Micropternodontidae, Oligoryctidae, Parapternodontidae

Subtaxa: Amphidozotheriinae Asionyctiinae Eosoricodontinae Indonyctia Leptacodon Limaconyssus Nyctitheriinae Nyctitherium Paradoxonycteris soricodon Placentidentinae Praolestinae Talpilestinae Yuanqulestes

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Belgium (2 collections), France (5), Germany (16), Switzerland (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (2), Canada (3: Saskatchewan), China (2), France (26), Germany (1), India (1), Mongolia (2), Morocco (1), Portugal (1), Spain (4), Switzerland (4), the United Kingdom (22), United States (64: California, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)

• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Canada (11: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (3), France (1), Mongolia (3), United States (36: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Portugal (1)

Total: 215 collections including 333 occurrences

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