Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceoidae
Alternative spelling: Erinaceoidea
Parent taxon: Lipotyphla according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Lillegraven and McKenna 1986, Schlosser 1877, Scott 2006, Sloan and Van Valen 1965 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Erinaceomorpha, Ghamidtherium, Soricomorpha, Solenodontidae, Aethomylos, Pantolestoidae, Erinaceidae
Subtaxa: Amphidozotherium Auroralestes Dartonius Diacocherus Dimylidae Leipsanolestes
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (5 collections), France (3), Germany (23), Greece (2), Hungary (3), Poland (3), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (17), Turkey (7)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Germany (7)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: Colorado, Mississippi, Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (7: Montana, Wyoming)
Total: 102 collections including 130 occurrences