Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Parent taxon: Soricoidea according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Carroll 1988, Gazin 1969, Hay 1930, 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 Myolestes Nyctitheriinae Nyctitherium Paradoxonycteris soricodon Placentidentinae Praolestinae Protentomodon Talpilestinae Yuanqulestes
Type: Nyctitherium
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 (94: California, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (11: Montana, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (11: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (3), France (1), Mongolia (3), United States (26: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Portugal (1)
Total: 246 collections including 386 occurrences