Nanolestes

Nanolestes; Temporal range: Late Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Amphitheriida
Family:	†Amphitheriidae
Genus:	†Nanolestes; Martin, 2002
Species
	Nanolestes mackennai; Nanolestes krusati; Nanolestes drescherae;

Nanolestes is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Amphitheriida from the Late Jurassic of Eurasia. Two species, N. krusati and N. drescherae are known from the Alcobaça Formation in Portugal. Another species, N. mackennai, was described from the Oxfordian aged Qigu Formation of China by Thomas Martin, Alexander O. Averianov and Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner in 2010.^[1]

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