Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Synonym: Pseudogalerix Gallard 1929
Parent taxon: Erinaceidae according to G. C. Gould 1995
See also Butler 1984, Carroll 1988, Crespo et al. 2020, Lopatin 2006, Pickford et al. 2000, Van Valen 1967 and Zijlstra and Flynn 2015
Sister taxa: Adapisoricinae, Brachyericinae, Cedrocherus, Changlelestinae, Dimylechinus, Entomolestes, Erinaceinae, Galericinae, Hylomyinae, Lantanotherium, Lanthanotherium, Litocherinae, Litolestes, Luchenus, Mellalechinus, Oncocherus, Palaeoscaptor, Silvacola
Subtaxa: Galerix africanus Galerix aurelianensis Galerix exilis Galerix kostakii Galerix remmerti Galerix rutlandae Galerix saratji Galerix stehlini Galerix symeonidisi Galerix uenayae Galerix wesselsae
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Spain (1 collection)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), China (4), the Czech Republic (1), France (11), Germany (16), Greece (3), Morocco (1), Pakistan (9), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Spain (13), Switzerland (15), Turkey (12)
• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 99 collections including 105 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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