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Myxomygale ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831082	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831082
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40415	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40415

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Soricomorpha : Talpidae : Myxomygale

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Talpidae : Myxomygale

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	Talpidae
subfamily	Talpinae	Fisher von Waldheim 1817
tribe	Urotrichini	Dobson 1883
genus	Myxomygale	Filhol 1890

Scientific Name

Myxomygale Filhol, 1890

Name Published In

Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris (8) 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Myxomygale	genus	belongs to Insectivora	stated with evidence	Filhol, 1890
Myxomygale	genus	belongs to Scaptonychini	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Myxomygale	genus	belongs to Urotrichini	stated with evidence	Crochet, 1974
Myxomygale	genus	belongs to Talpidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Myxomygale	genus	belongs to Urotrichini	stated with evidence	Crochet, 1995
Myxomygale	genus	belongs to Urotrichini	stated without evidence	Ziegler, 2003
Myxomygale	genus	belongs to Urotrichini	stated with evidence	Hugueney and Maridet, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

12.8 - 11.1 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Talpidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. Filhol. 1890. Descripion d'un nouveau genre d'insectivore provenant des dépots de phosphate de Chaux du Quercy. Bulletin Societé philomatique de Paris 8(2):176-177

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Myxomygale antiqua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Myxomygale asiaprima ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Myxomygale engesseri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Myxomygale gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	12.8 Ma Miocene	12.8 Ma Miocene
Myxomygale hutchisoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		10	20.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Palurotrichus hutchisoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1890	Myxomygale Filhol p. 177
1967	Myxomygale Van Valen
1974	Myxomygale Crochet p. 114
1985	Palurotrichus Ziegler p. 146
1988	Myxomygale Carroll
1995	Myxomygale Crochet p. 56
2003	Myxomygale Ziegler
2017	Myxomygale Hugueney and Maridet

References

Filhol H. Descripion d'un nouveau genre d'insectivore provenant des dépots de phosphate de Chaux du Quercy., Bulletin Societé philomatique de Paris 8 2, 176-177

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

Crochet J.-Y. (1974) Les Insectivores des Phosphorites du Quercy. [Insectivores of the Quercy Phosphorites]., Palaeovertebrata, Montpellier 6 1-2, 109-159

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

Crochet J.-Y. (1995) Le Garouillas et les sites contemporains (Oligocene, MP 25) des phosphorites du Quercy (Lot, Tarn-et garonne, France) et leurs faunes de vertebres. 4. Marsupiaux et insectivores., Palaeontographica Abteilung A 236 1-6, 39-75

Ziegler R. (2003) Moles (Talpidae) from the late Middle Miocene of South Germany., Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 4, 617-648

Hugueney M., Maridet O. (2017) Evolution of Oligo-Miocene talpids (Mammalia, Talpidae) in Europe: focus on the genera Myxomygale and Percymygale n. gen, Historical Biology doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1282477

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. Soc. Philom., Paris (8) 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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