Urotrichus dolichochir Gaillard 1899 (greater Japanese shrew-mole)

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

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.