Brevirhynchocyon Senut and Pickford 2021 (elephant shrew)

Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Rhynchocyonidae

Full reference: B. Senut and M. Pickford. 2021. Micro-cursorial mammals from the late Eocene tufas at Eocliff, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 23:90-160

Parent taxon: Rhynchocyonidae according to B. Senut and M. Pickford 2021

Sister taxa: Eorhynchocyon, Hypsorhynchocyon, Miorhynchocyon, Rhynchocyon

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Brevirhynchocyon in the database

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