CAENOLESTIDAE TROUESSART, 1898

Abello, María Alejandra, Martin, Gabriel M. & Cardoso, Yamila, 2021, Review of the extinct ‘ shrew-opossums’ (Marsupialia: Caenolestidae), with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the Early Miocene of southern South America, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 : -

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FAMILY CAENOLESTIDAE TROUESSART, 1898 View in CoL

Type genus: Stilotherium Ameghino, 1887, p. 7 .

Included genera: Caenolestes Thomas, 1895a, p. 367 [= Hyracodon Tomes, 1863, p. 50 , nec Hyracodon Leidy, 1856, p. 91 (a genus of Perissodactyla )] ( Fig. 5C, E, H, I); Rhyncholestes Osgood, 1924, p. 169 ( Fig. 5A, B, D, F, G); Lestoros Oehser, 1934, p. 240 [ Orolestes Thomas, 1917, p. 3 , nec Orolestes MacLachlan, 1895, p. 21 ; Cryptolestes Tate, 1934, p. 154 , nec Cryptolestes Ganglebauer, 1899, p. 608 (a subgenus of Coleoptera )]; Pliolestes Reig, 1955, p. 66 ; Gaimanlestes ; Caenolestoides .

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Paucituberculata
Family	Caenolestidae

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