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Notiosorex dalquesti, or Dalquest's shrew, is an extinct species of shrew that was found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico during the Pleistocene and possibly the Holocene.
| Notiosorex dalquesti Temporal range: Pleistocene - Holocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | Notiosorex |
| Species: | †N. dalquesti
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| †Notiosorex dalquesti Carroway, 2010
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Fossils of Dalquest's shrew were once thought to belong to the living Crawford's gray shrew but have since been classified as a distinct species.[1]
References
edit- ^ Carraway, L. N. (2010). "Fossil History of Notiosorex (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) Shrews with Descriptions of New Fossil Species". Western North American Naturalist. 70 (2): 144–163. doi:10.3398/064.070.0202. S2CID 86042657.