Amphechinus
Appearance
Amphechinus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | Erinaceidae |
Subfamily: | Erinaceinae |
Tribe: | †Amphechinini |
Genus: | †Amphechinus Aymard, 1850 |
Species | |
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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.
A single specimen examined in 1998 was estimated to have had a weight of 175 g (0.39 lb) when alive.[1][failed verification]
Sources
[edit]- ^ Bloch, J.I.; Rose, K.D.; Gingerich, P.D. (August 1998). "New species of Batodonoides (Lipotyphla, Geolabididae) from the early Eocene of Wyoming: smallest known mammal?". Journal of Mammalogy. 79 (3): 804–827. doi:10.2307/1383090. JSTOR 1383090.
- The Beginning of the Age of Mammals by Kenneth D. Rose
External links
[edit]- Amphechinus in the Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Hedgehogs
- Tortonian genus extinctions
- Miocene mammals of Africa
- Oligocene mammals of Asia
- Miocene mammals of Asia
- Oligocene mammals of Europe
- Miocene mammals of Europe
- Miocene mammals of North America
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Oligocene genus first appearances
- Fossil taxa described in 1850
- Prehistoric mammal stubs