Name:
Leptalestes.
Phonetic: Lep-tah-les-teez.
Named By: B. M. Davis - 2007.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Theria,
Metatheria.
Species: L. cooki, L. krejcii, L.
prokrejcii, L. toevsi.
Diet: Omnivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Across Canada and USA.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Multiple individuals.
Leptalestes is a genus of metatherian mammal that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A revision of “pediomyid” marsupials from the Late Cretaceous
of North America. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
52(2):217-256. - B. M. Davis - 2007.