Pantolesta
Pantolesta | |
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restoration of Palaeosinopa didelphoides | |
fossil of Kopidodon macrognathus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Grandorder: | Ferungulata |
Mirorder: | Ferae |
Order: | † McKenna, 1975[1] |
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Pantolesta ("all robbers") is an extinct order of placental mammals from mirorder Ferae, that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the early Paleocene to middle Oligocene.[2][3]
Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
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References
- ^ McKenna, M. C. (1975). "Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia". In Luckett, W. P.; Szalay, F. S. (eds.). Phylogeny of the Primates. New York: Plenum. pp. 21–46.
- ^ L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
- ^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten.