Nemolestes
| Nemolestes Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Sparassodonta |
| Genus: | †Nemolestes Ameghino, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| Nemolestes spalacotherinus Ameghino, 1902
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| Other species | |
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Nemolestes lagunafriensis Rangel et al., 2023 | |
Nemolestes is an extinct genus of sparassodont that lived in South America during the Lutetian and Bartonian stages of the Eocene epoch.[1]
Taxonomy
Silvenator brasiliensis, a taxon known from the Itaboraí fossil site of Brazil, was originally assigned to the genus Nemolestes; however, it was later reclassified as belonging to its own separate monotypic genus on the basis of its dental dissimilarity to other species of Nemolestes.[2]
Distribution
Nemolestes lagunafriensis is, as the name suggests, known from Laguna Fría, a Lutetian fossil site in Chubut, Argentina.[3] Nemolestes spalacotherinus, the type species, is known from the Bartonian site of Colhué Huapí Norte in Chubut.[4][5]
References
- ^ "Nemolestes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
- ^ Rangel, C. C.; Carneiro, L. M.; Oliveira, é. V. (August 2023). "Systematics, dental specializations and paleoecology of Silvenator gen. nov., a small carnivorous metatherian (Mammalia, Sparassodonta) from the Paleogene Itaboraí basin". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 128 104461. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104461. Retrieved 3 May 2026 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- ^ "Nemolestes lagunafriensis". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
- ^ "Nemolestes spalacotherinus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
- ^ Rangel, Caio César; Carneiro, Leonardo M.; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Bergqvist, Lílian Paglarelli; Oliveira, Édison Vicente (7 June 2023). "A reassessment of Nemolestes (Mammalia, Metatheria): Systematics and evolutionary implications for Sparassodonta". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 30 (3): 535–559. doi:10.1007/s10914-023-09663-7. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 3 May 2026 – via Springer Nature Link.