Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Synonym: Scapanei Winge 1917
Parent taxon: Talpinae according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Freeman 1979, Van Valen 1967, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Ziegler 2003
Sister taxa: Achlyoscapter, Condylurini, Magnatalpa, Scaptonychini, Urotrichini, Yunoscaptor
Subtaxa: Leptoscaptor Scalopoides Scalopus Scapanoscapter Scapanulus Scapanus Yanshuella
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (70: Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia collections)
• Blancan of United States (36: California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene of China (2), Poland (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (19: California, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas)
• Miocene of Canada (6: Saskatchewan), China (1), Germany (5), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (1), United States (33: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (2: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 180 collections including 189 occurrences