- Mongolestes
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Mongolestes
Temporal range: Eocene–OligoceneScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Laurasiatheria Order: Mesonychia Family: Mesonychidae Genus: Mongolestes Species - M. dolichognathus
- M. robustus
Mongolestes is an extinct mammal genus. Fossils have been found in the 'Ulan Gochu' formation of inner Mongolia and likely originated in Asia.
Mongolestes died out completely in the early Oligocene but outlasted all other Mesonychidae, being the last representative genus.
Species
- Genus Mongolestes
- Mongolestes hadrodens
- Mongolestes huangheensis
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