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''Dinosorex'' is an extinct eulipotyphlan genus, popularly referred to as giant terror shrews due to their fearsome lower incisors. ''Dinosorex'' lived in Europe from the late Oligocene or early Miocene to the late Miocene, with a range that stretched from Ukraine to Iberia.〔Furió, M., et al., Three million years of “Terror-Shrew” (Dinosorex, Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) in the Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Barcelona, Spain). C. R. Palevol (2015)〕 It was about the size of a modern hedgehog, but its enlarged and strengthened incisors (which have been found to contain iron particles within the enamel) may have allowed it to adopt a partially carnivorous diet, as opposed to the strictly insectivorous diet of most modern mammals of that size.〔 ==Taxonomy== The genus was described in 1972 by B. Engesser. It comprises the following species:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=40465 )〕 * ''D. anatolicus'' * ''D. engesseri'' * ''D. huerzeleri'' * ''D. pachygnathus'' * ''D. sansaniensis'' * ''D. zapfei'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dinosorex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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