Minutolestes

Martin, Thomas, Averianov, Alexander O., Schultz, Julia A., Schellhorn, Rico & Schwermann, Achim H., 2022, First spalacotheriid and dryolestid mammals from the Cretaceous of Germany, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67 (1), pp. 155-175 : 162

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00914.2021

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scientific name

Minutolestes
status

 

Genus Minutolestes nov.

Zoobank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:240D4DE4-0EF3-4959-922F-BF2C8B4E6F61

Etymology: From Latin minutus, tiny, referring to the small size and Greek λησήτς, robber.

Type species: Minutolestes submersus sp. nov.; see below.

Diagnosis.—As for the type and only known species.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Barremian–Aptian (Lower Cretaceous), northwestern Germany (Europe).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Family

Dryolestidae

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