†Urotrichus dolichochir Gaillard 1899 (greater Japanese shrew-mole)
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Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Alternative combination: Scaptonyx dolichochir
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 Urotrichus according to Hutchinson 1974
Sister taxa: Urotrichus giganteus, Urotrichus talpoides
Type specimen: UCBL FSL 69015, a limb element (Humerus sin.)
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Germany (1 collection), Slovakia (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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