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Soricomorpha

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40391	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40391

Rank

suborder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha

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
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Eulipotyphla
suborder	Soricomorpha	Gregory 1910

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Soricomorpha	suborder	belongs to Insectivora	stated without evidence	Gregory, 1910
Soricomorpha	suborder	belongs to Insectivora	stated with evidence	Novacek et al., 1985
Soricomorpha	suborder	belongs to Lipotyphla	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Soricomorpha	suborder	invalid subgroup of Eulipotyphla	stated with evidence	Douady et al., 2002
Soricomorpha	suborder	belongs to Lipotyphla	stated without evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004
Soricomorpha	suborder	belongs to Eulipotyphla	stated with evidence	Silcox et al., 2010
Soricomorpha	suborder	belongs to Eulipotyphla	stated without evidence	Rose et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

504

Extant Size (PBDB)

78 (15%)

First Recorded Appearance

93.5 - 89.3 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Mammaliaformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. J. Novacek, T. M. Bown, and D. Schankler. 1985. On the classification of early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia). American Museum Novitates 2813:1-22

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Soricota infraorder	listed (PBDB)		215	61.7 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Changlelestidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		39	55.8 Ma Eocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Heterosoricidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		195	46.2 Ma Eocene	8.70 Ma Miocene
Nyctitheriidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		323	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Parapternodontidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Plesiosoricidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		57	55.8 Ma Eocene	9.70 Ma Miocene
Soricidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Shrew	1,743	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Nycticonodon ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Solenodon genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Solenodon	3	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1910	Soricomorpha Gregory
1975	Soricomorpha McKenna p. 42
1985	Soricomorpha Novacek et al.
1997	Soricomorpha McKenna and Bell p. 274
2004	Soricomorpha Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 494, 506
2005	Soricomorpha Tabuce et al. p. 390
2006	Soricomorpha Lopatin
2009	Soricomorpha Ziegler p. 366
2010	Soricomorpha Silcox et al.
2012	Soricomorpha Rose et al.

References

Novacek M. J., Bown T. M., et al (1985) On the classification of early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia), American Museum Novitates 2813, 1-22

McKenna M. C. (1975) Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia, Phylogeny of the Primates, Plenum Publishing, New York, 21-46

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Cifelli R. L., et al (2004) Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: Origins, evolution, and structure, Columbia University Press, New York, 1-630

Tabuce R., Adnet S., et al (2005) Aznag (bassin d'Ouarzazate, Maroc), nouvelle localite a selaciens et mammiferes de l'Eocene moyen (Lutetien) d'Afrique, Bulletin de la societe Geologique du France 2005 176, 381-400

Lopatin A. V. (2006) Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora, Paleontological Journal 40 3, S205-S405

Ziegler R. (2009) Plesiosoricids from early Oligocene fissure fillings in South Germany, with remarks on plesiosoricid phylogeny, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 3, 365-371

Silcox M. T., Bloch J. I., et al (2010) Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160, 773-825

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

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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