Pantolesta

Pantolesta Temporal range: 63.8–28.4  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early Paleocene to middle Oligocene
restoration of Palaeosinopa didelphoides
fossil of Kopidodon macrognathus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Grandorder:	Ferungulata
Mirorder:	Ferae
Order:	† Pantolesta McKenna, 1975 [1]
Families
†Pantolestidae (paraphyletic family) †Paroxyclaenidae †Pentacodontidae

Pantolesta ("all robbers") is an extinct order of placental mammals from mirorder Ferae, that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the early Paleocene to middle Oligocene. ^{[2] [3]}

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Order: †Pantolesta(McKenna, 1975) Family: †Pantolestidae (paraphyletic family)(Cope, 1884) Family: †Paroxyclaenidae (Weitzel, 1933) Family: †Pentacodontidae (Simpson, 1937)

References

1. McKenna, M. C. (1975). "Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia". In Luckett, W. P.; Szalay, F. S. (eds.). Phylogeny of the Primates. New York: Plenum. pp. 21–46.
2. L. Van Valen (1967.) "New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
3. Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten. Pantolesta