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Taxonomy
Myosorex was named by Gray (1838). It is extant.
It was assigned to Crocidurini by Van Valen (1967); and to Soricidae by Carroll (1988).
It was assigned to Crocidurini by Van Valen (1967); and to Soricidae by Carroll (1988).
Species lacking formal opinion data
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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.
G. Myosorex Gray 1838
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Invalid names: Congosorex Heim de Balsac and Lamotte 1956 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Messinian - Piacenzian | South Africa (Cape) | M. sp. (59167) | |
| Pliocene | South Africa | M. varius (22339 22353) | |
| Pliocene | Spain (Albacete) | M. sp. (41932) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | France | M. meini (34397 49096) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Piacenzian | Ethiopia | M. robinsoni (21546) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa | M. sp. (22333) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Catalonia) | M. meini (68413) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | M. robinsoni (22628) | |
| Holocene | South Africa (N. Transraal) | M. varius (21693) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | M. varius (21862) |