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.
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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