Pantolesta

Pantolesta
Temporal range: early Paleocene to middle Oligocene
restoration of Palaeosinopa didelphoides
fossil of Kopidodon macrognathus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Grandorder: Ferungulata
Mirorder: Ferae (?)
Order: †Pantolesta
McKenna, 1975
Families

Pantolesta ("all robbers") is an extinct order of placental mammals that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the early Paleocene to middle Oligocene. They are recognized as close relatives of clade Pholidotamorpha (pangolins and palaeanodonts), based on their postcranial similarities and semi-fossorial adaptations.

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