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Mygalea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831079	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831079
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40411	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40411

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : Mygalea

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Talpidae : Mygalea

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
order	Lipotyphla	Haeckel 1866
family	Talpidae
subfamily	Desmaninae	Thomas 1912
genus	Mygalea	Schreuder 1940

Scientific Name

Mygalea Schreuder, 1940

Name Published In

Arch. neérl. Zool., 4, 206

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mygalea	genus	belongs to Desmaninae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Mygalea	genus	belongs to Talpidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Mygalea	genus	misspelling of Mygalea	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 1999
Mygalea	genus	belongs to Desmaninae	stated with evidence	van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 22.4 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

12.8 - 11.1 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Talpidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mygalea antiqua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	16.9 Ma Miocene	12.8 Ma Miocene
Mygalea jaegeri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Mygalea magna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	22.4 Ma Miocene	20.0 Ma Miocene
Scaptonyx jaegeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Migalea Schreuder, 1940	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : *Migalea*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1940	Mygalea Schreuder p. 11
1967	Mygalea Van Valen
1988	Mygalea Carroll
2006	Mygalea van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar p. 180

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

van den Hoek Ostende L. W., Fejfar O. (2006) Erinaceidae and Talpidae (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Mammalia)\r\nfrom the Lower Miocene of Merkur-Nord (Czech Republic, MN 3), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30, 175-203

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Arch. neérl. Zool., 4, 206 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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