Sperrgale
| Sperrgale Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Afrosoricida |
| Suborder: | Tenrecomorpha |
| Family: | Tenrecidae |
| Genus: | †Sperrgale |
| Species: | †S. minutus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Sperrgale minutus Pickford, 2015
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Sperrgale is an extinct genus of tenrecid that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Sperrgale minutus is known from the Eocliff Limestone of Namibia.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Pickford, Martin (2015). "Late Eocene Potamogalidae and Tenrecidae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 114–152.