Desmana nehringi Kormos 1913 (Russian desman)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae

Full reference: T. Kormos. 1913. Trois nouvelles espèces fossiles des Desmand en Hongrie. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici XI:136-146

Belongs to Desmana according to C. G. Rümke 1985

See also Kormos 1913 and Kurten 1968

Sister taxa: Archaeodesmana, Desmana inflata, Desmana kowalskae, Desmana moschata, Desmana pontica, Desmana pyrenaica, Desmana thermalis, Desmana verestchagini, Mygale arvernensis

Type specimen: NHMW 180, a mandible (fragment mandible with pm4 and m1)

Ecology: amphibious insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Romania (2 collections)

• MN 16 of Poland (1)

• Villafranchian of Hungary (3), Slovakia (1)

• Pliocene of Germany (1), Poland (1), Romania (2)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

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