- it as
actually a
paraphyletic ****emblage
leading to Placentalia. The
leptictids are a
characteristic example of the non-specialized
placental mammals...
- of insects, lizards, frogs, and
small mammals.
Leptictidium and
other leptictids are not placentals, but are non-placental eutherians,
although they are...
-
along with bilbies,
similar in
appearance to
elephant shrews and
extinct leptictids, and they are
distantly related to both
mammal groups. With
their well-attuned...
-
Leptictids reported from the
Willwood Formation Genus Species Presence Material Notes Images Palaeictops P.
bicuspis Also
found in the Wind
River Formation...
-
Clarendon Press. pp. 59–102. Novacek,
Michael J. (1986). "The
skull of
leptictid insectivorans and the higher-level
classification of
eutherian mammals"...
-
Leptictids reported from the Wind
River Formation Genus Species Presence Material Notes Images Palaeictops P.
bicuspis Lost
Cabin Member. Also
known from...
-
Leptictis is an
extinct genus of
leptictid non-placental
eutherian mammal known from the Late
Eocene to
Early Oligocene of
North America. The type species...
-
appeared two
million years later,
reached 50 kg (110 lb). The
largest leptictid ever
discovered is
Leptictidium tobieni from the
Middle Eocene of Germany...
-
evolutionary radiation together with
other early mammals, such as the
leptictids.
Their relationships to
other mammal groups are controversial; a 2010...
-
widely discovered in the
early Paleocene Bug Cr**** Group,
along with
leptictids.
These deposits were once
thought to be late Cretaceous, but it is now...
