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Percymygale minor

Mammalia - Talpidae

Taxonomy
Myxomygale minor was named by Ziegler (1990). Its type specimen is SMNS 44154 A1, a tooth (M1 sin.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ulm-Westtangente, which is in a MN 2 terrestrial marl in Germany. It is the type species of Percymygale.

It was recombined as Percymygale minor by Hugueney and Maridet (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Myxomygale minor Ziegler p. 15 figs. Pl. 4 fig. 2
2017Percymygale minor Hugueney and Maridet

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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()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Eulipotyphla
suborderSoricomorphaGregory 1910
infraorderSoricotaKalandadze and Rautian 1992
superfamilyTalpoideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyTalpidae(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
subfamilyTalpinaeFisher von Waldheim 1817
tribeUrotrichiniDobson 1883
genusPercymygale
speciesminor()

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.

Percymygale minor Ziegler 1990
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. Ziegler 1990Sehr kleine Myxomygale-Art; For. ment. unter der Hinterwurzel des p4, m1 < m2, m1 ohne Metacristid, Crista obliqua endet labial von Mediane; Crista obliqua des m2 endet lingual von Mediame, erreicht Metacristid nicht; linguale Conuli der M1 und M2 mäßig bis deutlich abgegliedert.