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Amphechinus ✝

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Description

Amphechinus is an extinct genus of hedgehog of the family Erinaceidae, which lived in Asia and Europe during the Oligocene and in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe during the Miocene.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphechinus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831126	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831126
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40369	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40369

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae : Amphechinus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Erinaceidae : Amphechinus

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	Erinaceinae	Fischer de Waldheim 1817
tribe	Amphechinini	Gureev 1979
genus	Amphechinus	Aymard 1850

Scientific Name

Amphechinus Aymard, 1850

Name Published In

Ann. Soc. Agric. Puy, 14

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Amphechinus	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated without evidence	Aymard, 1850
Amphechinus	genus	belongs to Protericini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Amphechinus	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated with evidence	Rich, 1981
Amphechinus	genus	belongs to Erinaceidae	stated without evidence	Pickford et al., 2000
Amphechinus	genus	belongs to Amphechinini	stated with evidence	Lopatin, 2002
Amphechinus	genus	belongs to Amphechinini	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 2003
Amphechinus	genus	belongs to Erinaceinae	stated without evidence	Bendukidze et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 1.81 Ma
Pleistocene

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.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphechinus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Palerinaceus (Postpalerinaceus) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	9.70 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Amphechinus akespensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Amphechinus arvernensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Amphechinus baudelotae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Amphechinus edwardsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Amphechinus ellicottae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	24.8 Ma Oligocene	24.8 Ma Oligocene
Amphechinus ginsburgi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Amphechinus golpeae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Amphechinus intermedius ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	13.7 Ma Miocene	13.7 Ma Miocene
Amphechinus kansuensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Amphechinus kreuzae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Amphechinus major ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Amphechinus minimus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Amphechinus minutissimus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Amphechinus robinsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Amphechinus rusingensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphechinus taatsiingolensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		21	28.4 Ma Oligocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Erinaceus arvernensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeoerinaceus horncloudi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	30.8 Ma Oligocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Palaeoerinaceus intermedius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palerinaceus vireti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Palerinaceus Crusafont & Villalta, 1947	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae : *Palerinaceus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1850	Amphechinus Aymard
1897	Palaeoerinaceus Filhol
1947	Palerinaceus Crusafont and Villalta
1967	Amphechinus Van Valen
1981	Amphechinus Rich
2000	Amphechinus Pickford et al. p. 258
2002	Amphechinus Lopatin
2003	Amphechinus Lopatin
2009	Amphechinus Bendukidze et al. p. 345

References

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

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

Pickford M., Gabunia L., et al (2000) The middle Miocene mammalian site of Belometchetskaya, North Caucasus: an important biostratigraphic link between Europe and China, Geobios 33 2, 257-267

Lopatin A. V. (2002) The Largest Asiatic Amphechinus (Erinaceidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Mongolia, Paleontological Journal 36 3, 302-306

Lopatin A. V. (2003) A New Genus of the Erinaceidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Mongolia, Paleontological Journal 37 6, 653-664

Bendukidze O. G., de Bruijn H., et al (2009) A revision of Late Oligocene associations of small mammals from the Aral Formation (Kazakhstan) in the National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi, Palaeodiversity 2, 343-377

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

Ann. Soc. Agric. Puy, 14 - 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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