Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Parent taxon: Talpinae according to F. Cailleux et al. 2024
See also Bendukidze et al. 2009, Crochet 1974, Van Valen 1967, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Ziegler 2003
Sister taxa: Achlyoscapter, Condylurini, Magnatalpa, Scalopini, Scaptonychini, Yunoscaptor
Subtaxa: Dymecodon Myxomygale Percymygale Pseudoparatalpa Quyania Tenuibrachiatum Urotrichus
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (3 collections)
• Pliocene of China (2)
• Turolian of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Austria (4), China (1), Czechia (1), Germany (11), Greece (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of France (7), Germany (15), Kazakhstan (6)
Total: 60 collections including 72 occurrences