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Parascalops

Mammalia - Talpidae

Taxonomy
Parascalops was named by True (1894). It is extant.

It was assigned to Urotrichini by Van Valen (1967); and to Talpidae by True (1894), Hay (1930), Yates and Schmidly (1975), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Carroll (1988), Eshelman et al. (2025).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Parascalops True
1930Parascalops Hay p. 438
1967Parascalops Van Valen
1975Parascalops Yates and Schmidly p. 902
1980Parascalops Kurten and Anderson p. 114
1988Parascalops Carroll
2025Parascalops Eshelman et al. p. 88

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Eulipotyphla
suborderSoricomorphaGregory 1910
infraorderSoricotaKalandadze and Rautian 1992
superfamilyTalpoideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyTalpidae(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
genusParascalopsTrue 1894

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. Parascalops True 1894
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Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 [hairly-tailed vole]
†Parascalops fossilis Skoczen 1993
†Parascalops grayensis Oberg and Samuels 2022
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean

Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: fossorialg
Diet: insectivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2011-05-14 21:04:13
Modified: 2011-05-14 06:04:13
Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Freeman 1979

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MN 14 to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.09000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.7 Ma

Collections (20 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Hemphillian9.4 - 4.7USA (Nebraska) P. sp. (18359)
Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan9.4 - 1.4USA (Tennessee) P. grayensis (26574)
MN 145.09 - 4.16Poland P. fossilis (32240)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117USA (West Virginia) P. breweri (124319 125941)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (Pennsylvania) P. breweri (20354)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (Maryland) P. sp., P. breweri (20302)
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21USA (West Virginia) P. breweri (20554)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Indiana) P. breweri (20600)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Virginia) P. breweri (82258 103991 104664 104679 104758 124089)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (West Virginia) P. breweri (93332 123868 124198 124199)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0USA (Virginia) P. breweri (104689)