†family Geolabididae McKenna 1960 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Geolabididae

Alternative spelling: Geolabidinae

Synonyms: Centetodontinae Trouessart 1879, Metacodontidae Butler 1948

Parent taxon: Soricomorpha according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008

See also Asher et al. 2005, Crochet 1974, Korth et al. 2022, Lofgren et al. 2020, Lopatin 2006, McKenna and Bell 1997, Van Valen 1967 and Ziegler 1999

Sister taxa: Changlelestidae, Nycticonodon, Plesiosoricidae, Soricidae, Soricoidea, Soricota

Subtaxa: Batodonoides Centetodon Gobigeolabis Marsholestes Protictops alticuspidens Stilpnodon

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (1: South Dakota collection)

• Harrisonian of United States (1: Nebraska)

• Arikareean of United States (3: California, Florida, Nebraska)

• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (29: Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)

• Eocene of Canada (5: Saskatchewan), United States (122: California, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta), Mongolia (1), United States (1: Montana)

Total: 166 collections including 203 occurrences

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