Dilambdogale

Dilambdogale Temporal range: 37.2 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Late Eocene

Molars and lower jaw fragment
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Afrosoricida
Genus:	Dilambdogale Erik R. Seiffert, 2010
Species
D. gheerbranti Erik R. Seiffert, 2010 (type)

Dilambdogale is an extinct genus of afrosoricid which existed in Fayum, Egypt during the latest Eocene (earliest Priabonian age).^[1] It was first named by Erik R. Seiffert in 2010 and the type species is Dilambdogale gheerbranti. Dilambdogale is the oldest known afrosoricid and its closest relative was Widanelfarasia.^[1]

Cladogram based on Seiffert (2010):^[1]

Afrosoricida

Todralestes

Afrodon

	Dilambdogale

	Widanelfarasia

Protenrec

Chrysochloroidea

	Amblysomus

	Chrysochloris

Tenrecoidea

Potamogale

Microgale

	Echinops

	Setifer

	Hemicentetes

	Tenrec

References

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1 2 3 Erik R. Seiffert (2010). "The oldest and youngest records of Afrosoricida (Placentalia, Afrotheria) from the Fayum Depression of northern Egypt" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (4): 599–616. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0023.

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