Necrolestes Temporal range: Early Miocene |
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N. patagonensis reconstructed as a mole-like animal | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Superorder: | †Dryolestoidea |
Clade: | †Meridiolestida |
Family: |
†Necrolestidae Ameghino, 1891 |
Genus: |
†Necrolestes Ameghino, 1891 |
Type species | |
Necrolestes patagonensis Ameghino, 1891 |
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Species | |
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Necrolestes ("grave robber" or "thief of the dead") is an extinct genus of non-therian mammals from the early Miocene of southern South America. It contains two species, N. patagonensis and N. mirabilis, and is the most recent known genus of dryolestoid.