Necrolestes
| Necrolestes Temporal range: Early Miocene | |
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| N. patagonensis reconstructed as a mole-like animal | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superorder: | †Dryolestoidea |
| Branch: | †Meridiolestida |
| Family: | †Necrolestidae Ameghino, 1891[1] |
| Genus: | †Necrolestes Ameghino, 1891 |
| Type species | |
| Necrolestes patagonensis Ameghino, 1891 | |
| 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 know genus of dryolestoid.
Necrolestes burrowing near to a Patagonia, another South American non-therian Miocene mammal.
References
- ↑ Florentino Ameghino (1891). "Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles descubiertos por Carlos Ameghino en el Eoceno inferior de la Patagonia austral. Especies nuevas, adiciones y correciones". Revista Argentina de Historia Natural. 1: 289–328.
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