Pantolesta

Pantolesta
Temporal range: early Paleocene to middle Oligocene
restoration of Palaeosinopa didelphoides
fossil of Kopidodon macrognathus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Grandorder: Ferungulata
Mirorder: Ferae
Order:
McKenna, 1975[1]
Families

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

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
  3. ^ Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten.