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INSECTIVORES, BATS, AND EDENTATES 



1. Order 1. Insectivora 



# Suborder i. Deltatheridioidea. Upper Cretaceous-Eocene. Asia and 

 N. America 

 *Deltatheridium, Cretaceous, Asia 

 Suborder 2. Lipotyphla 

 Superfamiiy 1. Erinaceoidea. Paleocene-Recent. Holarctic, Oriental, 

 Africa, N. America 

 Echinosorex, moonrat, Asia; Erinacens, hedgehog, Miocene- 

 Recent, Old World 

 Superfamiiy 2. Soricoidea. Paleocene-Recent 



Family Soricidae. Oligocene-Recent. Holarctic, Africa 



Sorex, shrew, Miocene-Recent; Neomys, water shrew, Eurasia 

 Family Talpidae. U. Eocene-Recent. Holarctic 



Talpa, mole, Miocene-Recent; Myogale, desman, water mole 

 Family Solenodontidae. Recent. W. Indies 



Solenodon, alamiqui 

 Family Tenrecidae. Miocene-Recent. Africa, Madagascar 

 Pota?nogale, otter shrew, W. Africa; Tenrec (= Centetes), ten- 

 rec, Madagascar 

 Family Chrysochloridae. Miocene-Recent. Africa 

 Chrysochloris, golden mole, S. Africa 

 Suborder 3. Menotyphla 

 *Superfamily 1. Leptictoidea. Upper Cretaceous-Oligocene 



*Zalambdalestes, Cretaceous, Asia.;*Ictops, Oligocene, N. America 

 Superfamiiy 2. Macroscelidoidea. Miocene-Recent. Africa 



Macroscelides, elephant shrew 

 Superfamiiy 3. Tupaioidea. Oligocene-Recent. Asia 



*AnagaIe, Oligocene; Tupaia, tree shrew; Ptilocerais, pen-tailed 

 tree shrew 



Modern insectivores are mostly small, nocturnal animals, main- 

 taining, possibly because of some special habitat, the earliest mam- 

 malian features. They have persisted with little change since the 

 Cretaceous. Apart from the retention of primitive characters, they 

 have little else in common. With them have been classified a number 

 of early, primitive eutherians that cannot be placed in any other order. 



