Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Full reference: L. W. van den Hoek Ostende. 1997. Insectivore faunas from the Lower Miocene of Anatolia. Part 4: The genus Desmanodon (Talpidae) with the description of a new species from the Lower Miocene of Spain. Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 100(1-2):27-65
Belongs to Desmanodon according to J. Prieto 2010
See also van den Hoek Ostende 1997
Sister taxa: Desmanodon antiquus, Desmanodon crocheti, Desmanodon daamsi, Desmanodon major, Desmanodon minor, Desmanodon ziegleri
Type specimen: MTA Ke-6771, a tooth (M2 sup. sin.). Its type locality is Keseköy, which is in a MN 3 lacustrine claystone/coal in Turkey.
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Turkey (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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