Subfamily Erinaceinae Fischer de Waldheim 1817 (hedgehog)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae

Parent taxon: Erinaceidae according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2008

See also Gould 1995, Lopatin 2006, McKenna and Bell 1997, Schlosser 1877 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Adapisoricinae, Brachyericinae, Cedrocherus, Changlelestinae, Dimylechinus, Entomolestes, Galericinae, Galerix, Hylomyinae, Lantanotherium, Lanthanotherium, Litocherinae, Litolestes, Luchenus, Mellalechinus, Oncocherus, Palaeoscaptor, Silvacola

Subtaxa: Amphechinini Atelerix Erinaceini Erinaceus Hemiechinus Hibbarderix Mesechinus Mioechinus Oligoechinus Scymnericini

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Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), China (2), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (2), Estonia (1), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Greece (5), Hungary (9), Israel (2), Italy (6), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (2), South Africa (6), Spain (8), the United Kingdom (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), France (1), Hungary (1)

• Pliocene of China (1), Greece (2), Hungary (4), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)

• MN 13 of Turkey (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)

• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (3), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (3), France (2), Germany (13), Greece (3), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Kenya (5), Mongolia (10), Namibia (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Thailand (1), Turkey (4), United States (39: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Harrisonian of United States (8: Nebraska, Wyoming)

• Arikareean of United States (5: Florida, Montana, Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1), Mongolia (1), United States (1: Colorado)

• Oligocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (10), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (7), Mongolia (19), Switzerland (1), United States (5: Florida, South Dakota)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)

• Eocene of Mongolia (1)

Total: 249 collections including 303 occurrences

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