Galerix iberica sp. nov. (Erinaceidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene of the Iberian Peninsula

Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications

“…Their size is only slightly smaller than that of Parasorex depereti (see Crochet, 1986). However, the proportions of the teeth and several morphological features, including the nearly rectangular M2 and the more developed labial cingula of the lower molars, are reminiscent of Parasorex ibericus, a smallsized species reported in the late Miocene of Europe (Mein and Martín-Suárez, 1993;Furió, A few isolated dental remains, a single mandibular fragment, as well as some partial humeri, are assigned to an indeterminate species of the genus Talpa. The m1 displays a U-shaped trigonid with a moderately curved paralophid and an oblique cristid connected with, or very close to, the metaconid; the single available mandibular corpus displays three mental foramina; the upper molars are subtriangular in shape and bear a well-developed protocone.…”

Hedgehogs (Erinaceidae, Lipotyphla) from the Miocene of Pakistan, with description of a new species of Galerix

“…Diagnosis: See Van den Hoek Ostende (2001). Remarks: The grammatical gender of Galerix has been treated variously in the literature; for example, Butler (1956) named Galerix africanus (masculine), but Mein and Martín Suárez (1993) named Galerix iberica (feminine). Pomel (1848) did not give an etymology when naming Galerix, but he included a species named Galerix magnus, indicating that he treated the name as masculine.…”

New species of Deinogalerix (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the late Miocene of Scontrone (Abruzzo, central Italy)

“…Butler (1980), however, rejected that Deinogalerix could be closely related either to the galericines known at those times in Europe, or to Lanthanotherium Filhol, 1891, which he considered as a relative of modern moonrats of southern Asia. Van den Hoek Ostende (2001) assumed that Deinogalerix derived from a middle -late Miocene 'Parasorex-like' ancestor and showed that Deinogalerix clusters with Schizogalerix Engesser, 1980, andParasorex von Meyer, 1865, the latter including P. socialis von Meyer, 1865, P. depereti (Crochet, 1986), and P. ibericus (Mein and Martín-Suárez, 1993). Ziegler (2005) stated that Deinogalerix is sister taxon to Schizogalerix and Parasorex.…”