Superfamily Talpoidea Fischer de Waldheim 1817 (placental)
Parent taxon: Soricota according to A. V. Lopatin 2006
See also Barnosky 1981 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Micropternodontoidea, Nesophontoidea, Solenodontoidea
Subtaxa: Proscalopidae Talpidae
Ecology: scansorial insectivore