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Entomolestes

Mammalia - Erinaceidae

Taxonomy

Entomolestes was named by Matthew (1909). Its type is Entomolestes grangeri.

It was assigned to Tupaiidae by Hay (1930); to Creotarsinae by Van Valen (1967); and to Erinaceidae by Matthew (1909), Novacek et al. (1985), Gunnell et al. (2008).

Species

E. grangeri (type species), E. westgatei

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1909	Entomolestes Matthew
1930	Entomolestes Hay p. 451
1967	Entomolestes Van Valen
1985	Entomolestes Novacek et al. p. 11
2008	Entomolestes Gunnell et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Eulipotyphla
family	Erinaceidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
genus	Entomolestes

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Entomolestes Matthew 1909

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†Entomolestes grangeri Matthew 1909

†Entomolestes westgatei Murphey and Kelly 2017

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

semifossorialf

Diet:

insectivoref

Diet 2:

carnivoref

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-06-08 10:11:09

Modified:

2012-05-14 22:01:37

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: base of the Tiffanian to the top of the Duchesnean or 60.90000 to 37.00000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Tiffanian	60.9 - 56.2	USA (North Dakota)	E. sp. (15000)
Wasatchian	54.9 - 50.5	USA (Wyoming)	E. sp. (15842)
Bridgerian	50.5 - 46.2	USA (Wyoming)	E. grangeri (16228) E. sp. (16296)
Early/Lower Uintan	46.2 - 39.7	USA (Wyoming)	E. westgatei (93087)
Duchesnean	39.7 - 37.0	USA (Wyoming)	E. sp. (16826)