Scaptonyx edwardsi Gaillard 1899 (Long-tailed mole)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Talpidae

Full reference: C. Gaillard. 1899. Mammifères miocènes nouveaux ou peu connus de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère). Archives des Museum d'histoire Naturelle de Lyon VII(2):1-79

Belongs to Scaptonyx according to C. Gaillard 1899

See also van den Hoek Ostende 2003

Sister taxon: Scaptonyx fusicaudus

Type specimen: FSL 69014, a mandible (Fragment mandible dex. and one humerus sin.).

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of France (1 collection), Germany (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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