Leptalestes

Leptalestes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	† Pediomyidae
Genus:	† Leptalestes Davis, 2007

Leptalestes is an extinct genus of mammals in the infraclass Metatheria. It was described by B.M. Davis in 2007. A new species, L. toevsi, was described from the late Cretaceous period of the United States by John P. Hunter, Ronald E. Heinrich, and David B. Weishampel in 2010. ^[1]

Species

• Leptalestes cooki(Clemens 1966)
• Leptalestes prokrejcii(Fox 1979)
• Leptalestes celodejiventris (Larson 1980)
• Leptalestes krejcii(Clemens 1966)
• Leptalestes toevsiHunter et al. 2010

References

1. Hunter, John P.; Heinrich, Ronald E.; Weishampel, David B. (2010). "Mammals from the St. Mary River Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (3): 885–898. doi:10.1080/02724631003763490.

External links

• Leptalestes at the Paleobiology Database