Parent taxon: Afroinsectiphilia according to R. J. Asher and K. M. Helgen 2010
See also Ameghino 1906, Carroll 1988, Flower 1883, Gregory 1910, Jaekel 1911, Madsen et al. 2001, McKenna 1975, Nowak 1991, Seiffert 2007, Waddell et al. 2001, Waddell et al. 1999 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxon: Afroinsectivora
Subtaxa: Orycteropodidae
Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (9), South Africa (16), Sudan (2), Tanzania (1), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (3), Tanzania (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Chad (1), Greece (9), Italy (1), Kenya (13), Moldova (2), Namibia (2), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (6), Uganda (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 100 collections including 104 occurrences