Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Zhelestidae

Full reference: L. A. Nessov. 1982. Drevneishie mlekopitaiushchie SSSR [Ancient mammals of the USSR]. Palyentologicheskogo Obshchyestva 25:228-243

Parent taxon: Zhelestidae according to J. D. Archibald and A. O. Averianov 2005

See also Averianov and Archibald 2005, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Nessov 1982 and Nessov et al. 1994

Sister taxa: Alostera, Aspanlestes, Avitotherium, Azilestes, Beleutinus, Beleutinus orlovi, Borisodon, Eozhelestes, Gallolestes, Kumsuperus, Lainodontinae, Mistralestes, Parazhelestes, Sheikhdzheilia, Sorlestes, Valentinella, Zhalmouzia, Zhelestes

Subtaxa: Oxlestes grandis

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at SSHD-8a, Sheikhdzheili (Cretaceous of Uzbekistan)

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