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Brachyerix ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831122	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831122
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40370	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40370

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae : Brachyerix

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Erinaceidae : Brachyerix

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	Erinaceidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
subfamily	Brachyericinae	Butler 1948
genus	Brachyerix	Matthew 1933

Scientific Name

Brachyerix Matthew, 1933

Name Published In

in Matthew & Mook, Amer. Mus. Novit., No. 601

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Brachyerix	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated without evidence	Matthew, 1933
Brachyerix	genus	belongs to Brachyericinae	stated with evidence	McKenna and Holton, 1967
Brachyerix	genus	belongs to Protericini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Brachyerix	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated with evidence	Rich, 1981
Brachyerix	genus	belongs to Brachyericinae	stated with evidence	Gould, 1995

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

24.8 - 20.4 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore, carnivore (based on Erinaceidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Brachyerix hibbardi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	24.8 Ma Oligocene	24.8 Ma Oligocene
Brachyerix macrotis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	24.8 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Brachyerix richi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Talpa incerta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1933	Brachyerix Matthew
1967	Brachyerix McKenna and Holton
1967	Brachyerix Van Valen
1981	Brachyerix Rich
1995	Brachyerix Gould p. 7

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

McKenna M. C., Holton C. P. (1967) A New Insectivore from the Oligocene of Mongolia and a New Subfamily of Hedgehogs, American Museum Novitates 2311, 1-11

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

Rich T. H. V. (1981) Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 171 1, 1-116

Gould G. C. (1995) Hedgehog phylogeny (Mammalia, Erinaceidae); the reciprocal illumination of the quick and the dead, American Museum Novitates 3131, 1-65

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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

in Matthew & Mook, Amer. Mus. Novit., No. 601 - 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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