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Alluvisorex ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4830912	https://www.gbif.org/species/4830912
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40446	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40446

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : Alluvisorex

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricidae : Alluvisorex

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
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Eulipotyphla
suborder	Soricomorpha	Gregory 1910
family	Soricidae	Fischer 1814
genus	Alluvisorex	Hutchison 1966

Scientific Name

Alluvisorex Hutchison, 1966

Name Published In

Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Ore. No. 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Alluvisorex	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Hutchison, 1966
Alluvisorex	genus	belongs to Soricini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Alluvisorex	genus	belongs to Soricidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Alluvisorex	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Korth and Evander, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 13.6 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Soricidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. H. Hutchison. 1966. Notes on Some Upper Miocene Shrews from Oregon. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 2:1-23

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Alluvisorex arcadentes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	16.0 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Hesperosorex chasseae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Alluvisorex Hutchison
1967	Alluvisorex Van Valen
1988	Alluvisorex Carroll
2016	Alluvisorex Korth and Evander

References

Hutchison J. H. (1966) Notes on Some Upper Miocene Shrews from Oregon, Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 2, 1-23

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

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

Korth W. W., Evander R. L. (2016) Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska, Annals of Carnegie Museum 83 3, 219-254 doi:10.2992/007.083.0301

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

Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Ore. No. 2 - 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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