Gaimanlestes, Abello & Martin & Cardoso, 2021

Abello, María Alejandra, Martin, Gabriel M. & Cardoso, Yamila, 2021, Review of the extinct ‘ shrew-opossums’ (Marsupialia: Caenolestidae), with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the Early Miocene of southern South America, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 : -

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10553263
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scientific name	Gaimanlestes
status	gen. nov.

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GAIMANLESTES GEN. NOV.

( FIG. 10A–E)

Zoobank registration: lsid: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:219E1FE7-7A15-4979-A098-710F0493F4C4

Etymology: The genus was composed of Gaiman, Chubut, the locality where the type specimen was found, and Greek ληστες meaning robbers or pirates, a common suffix in generic names of several paucituberculatans.

Type species: Gaimanlestes pascuali .

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Paucituberculata
Family	Caenolestidae

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