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Extinct family of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laolestes is an extinct genus of dryolestid mammal. Fossil remains are known from the Morrison Formation, in stratigraphic zones 5 and 6.,[1] the Late Jurassic of Portugal, and Early Cretaceous Wadhurst Clay of the United Kingdom.
| Laolestes Temporal range: Tithonian-Valanginian, | |
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| Jaws and teeth of Laolestes seen from different angles | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Dryolestida |
| Family: | †Dryolestidae |
| Genus: | †Laolestes Simpson, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| †Laolestes eminens Simpson, 1927 | |
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