Khuduklestes

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Khuduklestes
Temporal range:
Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: †Khuduklestes
Sigogneau-Russell et al., 1994
Type species
†Khuduklestes bohlini
Sigogneau-Russell et al., 1994

Khuduklestes is a genus of extinct mammal of uncertain affinities from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is rather similar to the also carnivorous and taxonomically uncertain Oxlestes, being slightly smaller.[1]

Description

Khuduklestes is currently represented by a single specimen, a vertebral axis, known from

Gansu Province of China. It is rather similar to Oxlestes and is among the largest vertebral mammalian remains from the Mesozoic, indicating a cat
-sized animal.

Classification

Khuduklestes was initially placed in

eutherian clade of mammals.[2]

References

  1. ISBN 0-231-11918-6
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  2. ^ Guillermo Rougier, New specimen of Deltatheroides cretacicus (Metatheria, Deltatheroida) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, BULLETIN OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 36(DEC 2004):245-266 · SEPTEMBER 2009
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