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A new species of a small allosoricine shrew from Late Pliocene cave deposits in Yinan County is described under the name Paenelimnoecus chinensis, and its systematic position is discussed. Detailed description of the species reveals morphological characters that distinguish it from the known species of Paenelimnoecus. Comparisons with the known species indicate close relationships between this new species and P. pannonicus from the Pliocene of Europe. Owing to lack of reliable Pliocene records in the literature, P. chinensis first demonstrates the Pliocene distribution of Paenelimnoecus in East Asia, although this genus was very recently described from the Late Miocene of Inner Mongolia. It is inferred that Paenelimnoecus was widely distributed from Europe to north China across the northern part of Eurasia in the Late Pliocene.
