†suborder Pantolesta McKenna 1975 (eutherian)

Mammalia - Cimolesta

Full reference: M. C. McKenna. 1975. Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia. Phylogeny of the Primates, Plenum Publishing, New York 21-46

Parent taxon: Cimolesta according to A. V. Lopatin 2006

See also McKenna 1975 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Apatotheria, Cimolestidae, Didelphodonta, Ernanodonta, Palaeoryctida, Pantodonta, Pentacodontidae, Sarcodontidae, Tillodontia, Todralestidae

Subtaxa: Pantolestidae

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Belgium (1 collection), Italy (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), France (5), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (2), the United Kingdom (10), United States (106: Arkansas, Colorado, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Canada (21: Alberta, Saskatchewan), France (1), Mongolia (1), United States (50: California, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 203 collections including 237 occurrences

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