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
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