Biology:Montanalestes

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Short description: Extinct family of mammals

Montanalestes
Temporal range: 110 Ma
Middle Cretaceous[1][2]
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Theria
Clade: Eutheria
Genus: Montanalestes
Cifelli, 1999
Species
  • M. keeblerorum Cifelli, 1999 (type)

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][3]

 Metatheria

 Sinodelphys szalayi

 Cenozoic metatherian

 Eutheria

 Juramaia sinensis

 Montanalestes keeblerorum

 Murtoilestes abramovi

 Eomaia scansoria

 Prokennalestes trofimovi

 Cenozoic placentalia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. 
  2. "PBDB". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39911&is_real_user=1. 
  3. Archibald, J. David (2003). "Timing and biogeography of the eutherian radiation: fossils and molecules compared". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28 (2): 350–359. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00034-4. PMID 12878471. http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/faculty/archibald/Archibald03MPE28p350.pdf. 

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