Text-fig. 6. Increasing complexity in the six differentiated types of schmelzmuster. The single-layered schmelzmuster is the most primitive stage in Soricidae. Crocidurinae and Anourosoricini modified this basal schmelzmuster only slightly, whereas the Soricinae evolved a two-layered schmelzmuster with REIS, and a varying lateral inclination (from Koenigswald and Reumer 2020). Megasorex represents the Notiosorex-schmelzmuster and Cryptotis the Blarina-scmelzmuster. Abbreviations: NP – neutral po

Text-fig. 6. Increasing complexity in the six differentiated types of schmelzmuster. The single-layered schmelzmuster is the most primitive stage in Soricidae. Crocidurinae and Anourosoricini modified this basal schmelzmuster only slightly, whereas the Soricinae evolved a two-layered schmelzmuster with REIS, and a varying lateral inclination (from Koenigswald and Reumer 2020). Megasorex represents the Notiosorex-schmelzmuster and Cryptotis the Blarina-scmelzmuster. Abbreviations: NP – neutral point between inclined fields, pad – paraconid, prd – protoconid.