Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Alternative combination: Hesperoscalops rexroadi
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1941. New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 26(2):337-368
Belongs to Scalopus according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Dalquest 1983, Hibbard 1941, Hutchison 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Tedford et al. 1987
Sister taxa: Scalopus aquaticus, Scalopus blancoensis, Scalopus sewardensis, Hesperoscalops mcgrewi, Hesperoscalops ruficervus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Rexroad KU Locality 2a, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (8: Kansas, New Mexico, Texas collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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