Amphechinus

Amphechinus Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Eutheria
Superorder:	Laurasiatheria
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Erinaceidae
Genus:	Amphechinus Aymard, 1850
Species
A. akespensis A. arvernensis A. baudelotae A. edwardsi A. ginsburgi A. golpeae A. horncloudi A. intermedius A. kreuzae A. major A. microdus A. minutissimus A. robinsoni A. taatsiingolensis

Amphechinus is an extinct genus of hedgehog of the family Erinaceidae, which lived in Asia and Europe during the Oligocene and in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe during the Miocene.

Taxonomy

Amphechinus was named by Aymard (1850). It is not extant. It was assigned to Erinaceidae by Aymard (1850), Rich (1981) and Pickford et al. (2000).

Morphology

A single specimen was examined by J. I. Bloch, K. D. Rose, and P. D. Gingerich for body mass and was estimated to have a weight of .

Its fossils have been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

Species

A. akespensis, A. arvernensis, A. baudelotae, A. edwardsi, A. ginsburgi, A. golpeae, A. horncloudi, A. intermedius, A. kreuzae, A. major, A. microdus, A. minutissimus, A. robinsoni, A. taatsiingolensis.

Sources

• The Beginning of the Age of Mammals by Kenneth D. Rose

External links

• Amphechinus in the Paleobiology Database