Dracontolestes is a genus of extinct insectivorous mammals in the family Mixodectidae. It is known only from a fragment of fossilized mandible found in Dragon Canyon, Utah.[1][2]
| Dracontolestes Temporal range: 63.3 to 61.7 Ma
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Dermoptera |
| Family: | †Mixodectidae |
| Genus: | †Dracontolestes Gazin, 1941 |
| Species: | †D. aphantus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Dracontolestes aphantus Gazin, 1941
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Species
editThere is only one known species in the genus, Dracontolestes aphantus.
References
edit- ^ "Fossilworks: Dracontolestes". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Dracontolestes aphantus Gazin, 1941". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2022-02-09.