Mammalia - Theriamorpha - 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 Talpa according to R. Ziegler 1990
Sister taxa: Talpa caeca, Talpa episcopalis, Talpa europaea, Talpa fossilis, Talpa gilothi, Talpa gracilis, Talpa minor, Talpa minuta, Talpa neagui, Talpa praeglacialis, Talpa romana, Talpa tyrrhenica, Talpa vallesensis
Type specimen: SMNS 44811, a partial skeleton (Partial skeleton in sediment embedded). Its type locality is Ulm-Westtangente, which is in a MN 2 terrestrial marl in Germany.
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Czech Republic (1 collection), Germany (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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