Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Full reference: R. Ziegler. 1990. Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) aus dem Oberoligozän und Untermiozän Süddeutschlands. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 167:1-81
Belongs to Geotrypus according to R. Ziegler 1990
Sister taxa: Geotrypus acutidentatus, Geotrypus antiquus, Geotrypus copernici, Geotrypus ehrensteinensis, Geotrypus oschiriensis, Geotrypus tomerdingensis
Type specimen: SMNS 44523, a partial skeleton (Partial skeleton embedded in sediment). Its type locality is Ulm-Westtangente, which is in a MN 2 terrestrial marl in Germany.
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Germany (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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