Sperrgale

Sperrgale
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Afrosoricida
Suborder: Tenrecomorpha
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: †
Species:
†S. minutus
Binomial name
†Sperrgale minutus
Pickford, 2015

Sperrgale is an extinct genus of tenrecid that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

Sperrgale minutus is known from the Eocliff Limestone of Namibia.[1]

References

  1. ^ Pickford, Martin (2015). "Late Eocene Potamogalidae and Tenrecidae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 114–152.
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