Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Alternative combination: Palaeoerinaceus horncloudi
Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82
Belongs to Amphechinus according to T. H. V. Rich 1981
See also Macdonald 1970 and Rich and Rasmussen 1973
Sister taxa: Amphechinus akespensis, Amphechinus arvernensis, Amphechinus baudelotae, Amphechinus edwardsi, Amphechinus ellicottae, Amphechinus ginsburgi, Amphechinus golpeae, Amphechinus intermedius, Amphechinus kansuensis, Amphechinus kreuzae, Amphechinus major, Amphechinus minimus, Amphechinus minutissimus, Amphechinus robinsoni, Amphechinus rusingensis, Amphechinus taatsiingolensis, Palerinaceus (Postpalerinaceus)
Type specimen: Its type locality is Monroe Creek (SDSM V-6229), which is in a Monroecreekian terrestrial horizon in the Monroe Creek Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (2: Montana collections)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Colorado)
• Oligocene of United States (3: South Dakota)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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