Kennalestes

Kennalestes
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 75 Ma
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Kennalestes gobiensis fossils
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Leptictida
Superfamily:
Leptictidoidea
Genus:
Kennalestes

Kielan-Jaworowska, 1968
Binomial name
Kennalestes gobiensis
Kielan-Jaworowska, 1968

Kennalestes is an extinct genus of insectivorous mammal resembling a shrew that was described in 1968.[1] The type species is K. gobiensis and it was a common mammal in Mongolia during the Cretaceous period, found in both the Bayan Mandahu Formation and Djadochta Formation. It was found in Mongolia during the Campanian, so it may have fallen victim to such predators as Velociraptor, Oviraptor and Archaeornithoides.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 1968. New Upper Cretaceous multituberculate genera from Bayn Dzak, Gobi Desert. Palaeontologia Polonica
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Leptictidium nasutum

Palaeosinopa didelphoides Wortmania otariidens

Zalambdalestes lechei
Taxon identifiers
Kennalestes gobiensis
Kennalestes


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