†Scaptonyx edwardsi Gaillard 1899 (Long-tailed mole)
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Mammalia - Soricomorpha - 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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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