Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Parent taxon: Talpidae according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008
See also Bendukidze et al. 2009, Cailleux et al. 2024, Freeman 1979, Oberg and Samuels 2022, Van Valen 1967, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Ziegler 2003
Sister taxa: Anomodon, Asthenoscapter, Chrysochlorina, Desmana, Desmaninae, Desmanodon, Domninoides, Entomodon, Eotalpa, Galeospalax, Geolabis, Hugueneya, Hyporyssus, Mioscalops, Mogera, Mongolopala, Neurotrichus, Oreotalpa, Parascalops, Parascaptor, Proscalopinae, Quadrodens, Scalopinae, Scaptochirus, Scaptogale, Soricina, Suleimaninae, Talpa, Talpina, Tegulariscaptor, Tenrecina, Tupaina, Uropsilinae
Subtaxa: Achlyoscapter Condylurini Magnatalpa Scalopini Scaptonychini Urotrichini Yunoscaptor
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (3 collections), Poland (1), United States (81: Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (36: California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene of China (2), Germany (1), Poland (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (21: California, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)
• Miocene of Austria (6), Canada (6: Saskatchewan), China (7), the Czech Republic (1), France (12), Germany (27), Greece (3), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), United States (36: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (2: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), France (13), Germany (18), Kazakhstan (6), Mongolia (1), United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 299 collections including 361 occurrences