Dolinasorex

Dolinasorex glyphodon is an extinct species of giant venomous shrew . Fossilized remains of the animal were found at the Gran Dolina site, 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 is the only known species in the genus Dolinasorex.^[1][2]

Dolinasorex Temporal range: 0.78–0.90 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Soricidae
Genus:	†Dolinasorex Rofes & Cuence-Bescós, 2008
Type species
†Dolinasorex glyphodon Rofes & Cuence-Bescós, 2008

References

1. "Fossil of 'giant' shrew nearly one million years old found in Spain". Science Daily. May 18, 2009.
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.