Some species of the southeastern Italian Miocene giant galericine Deinogalerix (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) revisited, with review of the genus

Andrea Savorelli*, Federico Masini**, Antonio Borrani** & Paul Mazza*

*Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze 50121, Italy; andrea_savorelli@yahoo.it, paul.mazza@unifi.it
A. Savorelli: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6984-3650
P. Mazza: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7664-3307
**Department of Earth and Marine Sciences (DISTEM), University of Palermo, Via Archirafi 22, Palermo 90123, Italy; federico.masini@unipa.it, antonio.borrani@unipa.it

How to cite: Savorelli et al. (2018). Some species of the southeastern Italian Miocene giant galericine Deinogalerix
(Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) revisited, with review of the genus. Fossilia, Volume 2018: 45-47. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.20.1810.144547

Bullet-Points Abstract

• Revision of Deinogalerix remains from the Terre Rosse of Gargano stored at the University of Florence.
  
• The material was assigned mainly to D. freudenthali, D. intermedius and D. minor.
  
• The material improves our knowledge of the small and primitive species D. freudenthali.
  
• The study confirms the validity of the lineages D. minor-D. brevirostris and D. intermedius-D. koenigswaldi.
  

Keywords: Deinogalerix; Terre Rosse; late Miocene; Galericini; endemism.

Fig. 1. A, location map of localities that yielded the fossils of the Apulia Platform Fauna. B-E, Deinogalerix minor Butler, 1980
from fissure F9, fragmental skull F9-014; B, dorsal view; C, palatal view; D, left lateral view; E, right lateral view.

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