Mammalia - Lipotyphla - Erinaceidae

Full reference: T. H. V. Rich. 1981. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 171(1)

Belongs to Metechinus according to T. H. V. Rich 1981

Sister taxon: Metechinus nevadensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Santa Cruz, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Tesuque Formation of New Mexico

Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore