Dolinasorex

Dolinasorex
Dolinasorex
Temporal range: 0.78–0.90 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Dolinasorex
Rofes & Cuence-Bescós, 2008
Species: D. glyphodon
Binomial name
Dolinasorex glyphodon
Rofes & Cuence-Bescós, 2008

Dolinasorex glyphodon was a species of giant venomous shrew that is now extinct. Remains of the animal were found at the Gran Dolina site, located in the Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain by researchers from the University of Zaragoza, Spain between 1991 and 2007. The deposit is estimated to be between 780,000 and 900,000 years old. D. glyphodon was the only species in the genus Dolinasorex.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Fossil of 'giant' shrew nearly one million years old found in Spain". Science Daily. May 18, 2009. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518103229.htm. 
  2. ^ Juan Rofes & Gloria Cuence-Bescós (2009). "A new genus of red-toothed shrew (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain), and a phylogenetic approach to the Eurasiatic Soricinae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (4): 904–925. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00470.x. 


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