Yantanglestes
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Yantanglestes Temporal range:
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Yantanglestes conexus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Mesonychia |
Family: | †Mesonychidae |
Genus: | †Yantanglestes Ideker and Yan, 1980[1] |
Type species | |
†Lestes conexus | |
Species | |
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Yantanglestes is a genus of small, Chinese mesonychid with slender jaws that first appeared during the Early Paleocene in the Thanetian stage. It was found throughout Asia. It is the oldest known mesonychid. Yantanglestes became extinct during the Nongshanian division of the Late Paleocene,[2] and lived sympatrically with its descendant genera, including Dissacus, Sinonyx and Jiangxia.[2]
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- Mesonychids
- Paleocene mammals
- Thanetian life
- Paleocene mammals of Asia
- Paleogene China
- Prehistoric animals of China
- Fossil taxa described in 1980
- Prehistoric placental genera
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