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LEPTALESTES
(lep-tah-les-teez)
Named By: B. M. Davis in 2007
Time Period: Unavailable
Location: Across Canada and USA
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Omnivore
Fossil(s): Multiple individuals
Classification: | Chordata | Mammalia | Theria | Metatheria |
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Leptalestes is an extinct genus of mammals in the infraclass Metatheria. It was described by B.M. Davis in 2007. A new species, L. toevsi, was described from the late Cretaceous period of the United States by John P. Hunter, Ronald E. Heinrich, and David B. Weishampel in 2010.

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