Namasengi mockeae Senut and Pickford 2021 (elephant shrew)

Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae

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

Belongs to Namasengi according to B. Senut and M. Pickford 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: EC10 1.1a, a maxilla (, right maxilla with C1/-M3/). Its type locality is Eocliff, which is in a Bartonian spring limestone in Namibia.

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: found only at Eocliff

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