Montanalestes
| Montanalestes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| (unranked): | Tribosphenida |
| Subclass: | Theria |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| Genus: | Montanalestes Cifelli, 1999 |
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Montanalestes is an extinct mammal known from the Cretaceous in North America.[1]
Classification
Known from only six fossil teeth, Montanalestes is an example of the less well-preserved early eutherians found on the northern hemisphere, apparently more closely related to later eutherians than Prokennalestes, and Murtoilestes.[1][2]
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References
- 1 2 Cifelli, Richard L. (1999). "Tribosphenic mammal from the North American Early Cretaceous". Nature. 401 (6751): 363–366. doi:10.1038/43860. PMID 16862109.
- ↑ Archibald, J. David (2003). "Timing and biogeography of the eutherian radiation: fossils and molecules compared" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 28: 350–359. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00034-4. PMID 12878471.
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