Shargainosorex, Zazhigin & Voyta, 2018

Zazhigin, Vladimir S. & Voyta, Leonid L., 2018, A new middle Miocene crocidosoricine shrew from the Mongolian Shargain Gobi Desert, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (1), pp. 171-187 : 174

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00396.2017

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scientific name

Shargainosorex
status

 

Genus Shargainosorex nov.

ZooBank LSID: http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FE820A5F-2B29-4E6D-AEC0-698DBA466A91

Etymology: After the Shargain Gobi Desert (Depression), located in southwest Mongolia, the provenance of the fossil remains, and from Latin sorex, shrew.

Type species: Shargainosorex angustirostris sp. nov., by monotypy, see below.

Diagnosis.—As for the only included species.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Known only from the type locality of the species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

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