Montanalestes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Eutheria |
Genus: |
†Montanalestes Cifelli, 1999 |
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Montanalestes is an extinct mammal known from the Cretaceous in North America.
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.
Cenozoic metatherian
Montanalestes keeblerorum
Cenozoic placentalia