Mayulestes

Mayulestes
Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan),
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Sparassodonta
Family: †Mayulestidae
Genus: †Mayulestes
de Muizon 1994
Species:
†M. ferox
Binomial name
†Mayulestes ferox
de Muizon 1994

Mayulestes (Quechua: mayu river, + Greek: lestes, thief) is a genus of carnivorous metatherian that lived in what is now Tiupampa, Bolivia in the early Paleocene. It shared its habitat with fellow sparassodont Pucadelphys, and a microbiotherid marsupial, Khasia.

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