Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Parent taxon: Talpinae according to O. G. Bendukidze et al. 2009
See also Crochet 1974, Van Valen 1967, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Ziegler 2003
Sister taxa: Achlyoscapter, Condylurini, Magnatalpa, Scalopini, Scaptonychini, Yunoscaptor
Subtaxa: Dymecodon Myxomygale Percymygale Proscapanus Pseudoparatalpa Quyania Tenuibrachiatum Urotrichus
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (3 collections)
• Pliocene of China (2)
• Miocene of Austria (6), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (12), Germany (25), Greece (3), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of France (7), Germany (15), Kazakhstan (6)
Total: 89 collections including 109 occurrences