Necromanis
| Necromanis Temporal range: Oligocene-Miocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pholidota |
| Superfamily: | Manoidea |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Necromanis Filhol, 1893 |
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| Lutra franconica Quenstedt, 1886 | |
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Necromanis (literally "dead pangolin") is an extinct genus of pangolin from the Oligocene and Miocene of France. It was originally placed within Manidae, but was eventually removed from it as more fossil pholidotids from outside that family were found and studied more extensively (i.e., with the discovery and study of Eomanis and Patriomanis). Currently, Necromanis is placed as incertae sedis within the pholidotid superfamily Manoidea, together with the families Manidae and Patriomanidae.
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