Darocasorex

Darocasorex
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Tribe: Anourosoricini
Genus: †
Van Dam, 2010

Darocasorex (named after the town Daroca in Spain, close to the place where its fossils were found)[1] is an extinct shrew which existed in Europe during the Miocene epoch.[1] It was first named by Jan A. van Dam in 2010.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Jan A. van Dam (2010). "The systematic position of Anourosoricini (Soricidae, Mammalia): paleontological and molecular evidence]". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (4): 1221–1228. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30.1221V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.483553. S2CID 83736562.


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