Vincelestes
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Vincelestes ("Vince's thief") is an extinct genus of mammal that lived in what is now South America during the Early Cretaceous. It is closely related to modern therian mammals as part of Cladotheria.
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Vincelestes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Prototribosphenida |
Family: | †Vincelestidae Bonaparte, 1986 |
Genus: | †Vincelestes Bonaparte, 1986 |
Species: | †V. neuquenianus |
Binomial name | |
†Vincelestes neuquenianus Bonaparte, 1986 | |
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