Origolestes
| Origolestes Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| Fossil skeleton, Chaoyang Paleontological Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Symmetrodonta |
| Family: | †Zhangheotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Origolestes |
| Species: | †O. lii |
| Binomial name | |
| †Origolestes lii Mao et al., 2019 | |
Origolestes is an extinct monotypic genus of stem group therian that lived in East Asia during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch.[1]
Palaeobiology
[edit]Social behaviour
[edit]Six individuals of Origolestes lii have been found together, likely the result of all being buried simultaneously as they slept huddled together.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Origolestes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 26 June 2026.
- ↑ Mao, Fangyuan; Hu, Yaoming; Li, Chuankui; Wang, Yuanqing; Chase, Morgan Hill; Smith, Andrew K.; Meng, Jin (5 December 2019). "Integrated hearing and chewing modules decoupled in a Cretaceous stem therian mammal". Science. 367 (6475): 305–308. doi:10.1126/science.aay9220. ISSN 0036-8075. Retrieved 26 June 2026 – via Science.
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