Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Parent taxon: Erinaceidae according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Gould 1995, Hay 1930, Lopatin 2006, McKenna and Bell 1997, Schlosser 1877 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Adapisoricinae, Brachyericinae, Cedrocherus, Changlelestinae, Dimylechinus, Entomolestes, Galericinae, Galerix, Hylomyinae, Lantanotherium, Lanthanotherium, Litocherinae, Litolestes, Luchenus, Mellalechinus, Oncocherus, Palaeoscaptor, Silvacola
Subtaxa: Amphechinini Atelerix Erinaceini Erinaceus Hemiechinus Hibbarderix Mesechinus Mioechinus Oligoechinus Scymnericini Sonidolestes
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), China (2), Czechia (3), Egypt (2), Estonia (1), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Greece (5), Hungary (9), Israel (2), Italy (6), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (2), South Africa (6), Spain (8), the United Kingdom (1)
• Villafranchian of Greece (2), Hungary (3), Italy (1)
• MN 16 of Poland (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), France (1), Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), Hungary (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1)
• MN 13 of Türkiye (1)
• Turolian of Afghanistan (1), Greece (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (4), France (2), Germany (13), Greece (2), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Kenya (5), Mongolia (10), Namibia (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Thailand (1), Türkiye (4), United States (39: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (8: Nebraska, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (5: Florida, Montana, Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Mongolia (1), United States (1: Colorado)
• Oligocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (10), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (7), Mongolia (19), Switzerland (1), United States (5: Florida, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
• Eocene of Mongolia (1)
Total: 250 collections including 303 occurrences