Subfamily Macroscelidinae Bonaparte 1838 (elephant shrew)
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae
Parent taxon: Macroscelididae according to A. Grossman and P. A. Holroyd 2009
See also Butler 1984, Schlosser 1877 and Van Valen 1967
Sister taxa: Herodotiinae, Mylomygalinae, Namasenginae
Subtaxa: Elephantulini Macroscelidini Miosengi Pronasilio Rhynchocyonini
Type: Macroscelidini
Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (1 collection), South Africa (5), Tanzania (2), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)
• Pliocene of Kenya (1), South Africa (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (2)
• Miocene of Kenya (2), Namibia (1)
• Oligocene of Egypt (1)
Total: 28 collections including 39 occurrences