Deccanolestes

Deccanolestes; Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Paleocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Eutheria
Genus:	Deccanolestes; Prasad & Sahni, 1988
Species
	D. hislopi Prasad & Sahni, 1988 (type); D. robustus Prasad, Jaeger, Sahni, Gheerbrandt & Khajuria, 1994; D. narmadensis Prasad, Verma, Gheerbrant, Goswami, Khosla, Parmar, & A. Sahni, 2010;

Deccanolestes is a scansorial, basal Euarchontan from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and Paleocene Intertrappean Beds of Andhra Pradesh, India. It may be closely related to Sahnitherium. Deccanolestes has been referred to Palaeoryctidae in the past, but recent evidence has shown that it is either the most basal Euarchontan,^[1] as the earliest known Adapisoriculid,^[2] or as a stem-afrotherian.^[3]

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