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Leptalestes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Infraclass
  
Metatheria

Phylum
  
Chordata

Subclass
  
Theria

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Cimexomys, Mesodma, Belonostomus, Cimolestes, Didelphodon

Leptalestes is an extinct genus of mammals in the infraclass Metatheria. It was described by B.M. Davis in 2007. A new species, L. toevsi, was described from the late Cretaceous period of the United States by John P. Hunter, Ronald E. Heinrich, and David B. Weishampel in 2010.

Species

  • Leptalestes cooki (Clemens 1966)
  • Leptalestes prokrejcii (Fox 1979)
  • Leptalestes krejcii (Clemens 1966)
  • Leptalestes toevsi Hunter et al. 2010

    • References

    Leptalestes Wikipedia
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