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Cimolesta
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous to Eocene
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Kopidodon macrognathus

Kopidodon macrognathus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Infraclass:Eutheria
Superorder:Laurasiatheria
Order:Cimolesta
Clades
Cimolesta (from Greek, literally, "White Clay Thieves") is an extinct order of mammals. A few experts place the pangolins within Cimolesta, though most other experts prefer to place the pangolins within their own order, Pholidota.

Some experts place the enigmatic family Ptolemaiidae within Cimolesta, also.

It is part of the cohort Ferae, and is possibly a sister taxon to the Perissodactyla. The Cimolesta contains several groups that are very different from each other, and are sometimes regarded as separate orders (which makes the Cimolesta a clade between that of order and superorder): the hooved Pantodonta, the insectivorous Didelphodonta (which contains the well-known genus Cimolestes, a possible ancestor of the Carnivores) the possibly carnivorous Tillodonta, the Taeniodonta and the Apatotheria. Several groups are believed to have descended from the Cimolesta: the Pholidota (which could be regarded a suborder of Cimolesta), the Creodonta and the Carnivora. Cimolestans had a wide variety of body shapes, dentition and livestyles. The majority of them bore superficial resemblances to rodents, weasels or oppossums.
The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i.e. from 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago (Ma)) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (about 65.5 ± 0.3 Ma).
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The Eocene epoch (55.8 ± 0.2 - 33.9 ± 0.1 Ma) is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene epoch.
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Kopidodon

Species: K. macrognathus

Binomial name
Kopidodon macrognathus
Wittich, 1898

Kopidodon
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Eutheria

Orders[1]
  • Bobolestes
  • Eomaia
  • Maelestes
  • Montanalestes
  • Murtoilestes
  • Prokennalestes
  • Placentalia
  • Superorder

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Laurasiatheria

Orders
  • Erinaceomorpha
  • Soricomorpha
  • Chiroptera
  • Cetartiodactyla
  • Cetacea
  • Artiodactyla
  • Perissodactyla

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Taeniodonta

Family: Stylinodontidae

Genera

See "Taxonomy"

The taeniodonts were an early group of mammals who lived from the Palaeocene to the Eocene.
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Pantodonta

Families
  • Wangliidae
  • Titanoideidae
  • Coryphodontidae
  • Pantolambdodontidae
  • Pantolambdidae
  • Barylambdidae
  • Cyriacotheriidae
  • Harpyodidae

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Pholidota
Weber, 1904

Family: Manidae
Gray, 1821

Genus: Manis
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Manis culionensis
Manis gigantea

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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Pholidota
Weber, 1904

Family: Manidae
Gray, 1821

Genus: Manis
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Manis culionensis
Manis gigantea

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family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Cohort may mean:
  • In biology:
  • Cohort (taxonomy), a taxonomic level for a group of allied orders or families of species

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Ferae

Orders

Carnivora
Pholidota
Creodonta (extinct)
Cimolesta (extinct)

Ferae is a clade consisting of the mammal orders Carnivora (over 260 species across the globe) and Pholidota (8 species of pangolin in tropical Africa and Asia).
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Perissodactyla
Owen, 1848

Families

Equidae
Tapiridae
Rhinocerotidae
Brontotheriidae (extinct)
Chalicotheriidae (extinct)
Hyracodontidae (extinct)
Palaeotheriidae (extinct)
Amynodontidae (extinct)

The odd-toed ungulates
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Pantodonta

Families
  • Wangliidae
  • Titanoideidae
  • Coryphodontidae
  • Pantolambdodontidae
  • Pantolambdidae
  • Barylambdidae
  • Cyriacotheriidae
  • Harpyodidae

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Cimolestes
Marsh, 1889

Cimolestes ("White Clay Thief") is a genus of primitive, opossum-like placental mammals. The species are found primarily in North America, where they first appeared during the Late Cretaceous, and died out during the
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Taeniodonta

Family: Stylinodontidae

Genera

See "Taxonomy"

The taeniodonts were an early group of mammals who lived from the Palaeocene to the Eocene.
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Pholidota
Weber, 1904

Family: Manidae
Gray, 1821

Genus: Manis
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Manis culionensis
Manis gigantea

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Creodonta
(Cope, 1875)

Families

Hyaenodontidae
Oxyaenidae

The creodonts are an extinct order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch. They shared a common ancestor with carnivorans.
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Carnivora
Bowdich, 1821

Families
  • 17, See classification

The diverse order Carnivora (IPA: /kɑrˈnɪvərə/
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Rodentia
Bowdich, 1821

Suborders

Sciuromorpha
Castorimorpha
Myomorpha
Anomaluromorpha
Hystricomorpha
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents
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Mustela
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Mustela africana
Mustela altaica
Mustela erminea
Mustela eversmannii
Mustela felipei
Mustela frenata
Mustela kathiah

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Didelphimorphia
Gill, 1872

Family: Didelphidae
Gray, 1821

Genera

Several; see text
Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere.
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