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Afrosoricida is an
order of
placental mammals.
Members of this
order are
called afrosoricids, and
include golden moles,
otter shrews, and tenrecs. They are found...
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Dilambdogale is an
extinct genus of
afrosoricid which existed in Fayum,
Egypt during the
latest Eocene (earliest
Priabonian age). It was
first named by...
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while in
males it
forms the
entirety of the
penile urethra. However, the
afrosoricids and some
shrews retain a
cloaca as adults. In marsupials, the genital...
- V.D.; Cruzado-Caballero, P.; Castillo, C. (September 2023). "First
afrosoricid out of Africa: an
example of
Pliocene 'tourism' in Europe". Palaeoworld...
- in diversity.
Exceptional adult placentals that
retain a
cloaca are
afrosoricids, beavers, and some shrews. Renfree, M. B. (March 2010). "Review: Marsupials:...
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Qatranilestes is an
extinct genus of
afrosoricid which existed in Fayum,
Egypt during the
earliest Oligocene period (Rupelian age). It was
first named...
- animals. All amphibians, reptiles, birds, and a few
mammals (monotremes,
afrosoricids, and
marsupial moles)[clarification needed] have this ****, from which...
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vibrations in the
ground to
locate their prey.
Unusual among placentals,
afrosoricids have a cloaca,
which is the rear **** that
functions as the opening...
- This
means that they
share a
closer common ancestor with such
existing afrosoricids as elephants,
manatees and
aardvarks than they do with
other placental...
- GarcĂa-Alix (2024)
reinterpret fossil material of ****tive
European afrosoricid Europotamogale melkarti as
remains of a water-mole of the
genus Archaeodesmana...