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Pseudotrimylus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4830933	https://www.gbif.org/species/4830933
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40484	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40484

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Soricidae : Pseudotrimylus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricidae : Pseudotrimylus

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	Pseudotrimylus	Gureev 1971

Scientific Name

Pseudotrimylus Gureev, 1971

Name Published In

Shrew fauna (Soricidae) of the world. Zool. Inst., Akad. Nauk SSSR, 'Nauka', Leningrad

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudotrimylus	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Gureev, 1971
Pseudotrimylus	genus	belongs to Soricidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Pseudotrimylus	genus	belongs to Soricidae	stated without evidence	Korth and Evander, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 33.3 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Domnina compressa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Heterosorex roperi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	20.4 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Pseudotrimylus blacki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Trimylus dakotensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Trimylus mawbyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Trimylus Roger
1967	Trimylus Repenning
1967	Trimylus Van Valen
1971	Pseudotrimylus Gureev
1988	Trimylus Carroll
1997	Pseudotrimylus McKenna and Bell
2016	Pseudotrimylus Korth and Evander

References

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

Repenning C. A. (1967) Subfamilies and genera of the Soricidae, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 565, 1-74

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

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

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

Shrew fauna (Soricidae) of the world. Zool. Inst., Akad. Nauk SSSR, 'Nauka', Leningrad - 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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