The order Insectivora (from Latin insectum "insect" and vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals. Some species have now been moved out, leaving the remaining ones in the order Eulipotyphla, within the larger clade Laurasiatheria, which makes up one of the most basic clades of placental mammals.
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Lunanosorex insectivora , mammalia from the pliocene of north china 晚中新世中期
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This is the fifth part of “ a guide to the measurement of mammal skull ” . in this paper we introuced the special measurements for insectivora and chiroptera 本文为《兽类头骨测量标准》第五部分,在第一部分基本量度的基础上着重介绍了食虫目和翼手目各类群特有的量度及测量方法。