Aspanlestes, NESOV, 1985

Archibald, J. David & Averianov, Alexander, 2012, Phylogenetic analysis, taxonomic revision, and dental ontogeny of the Cretaceous Zhelestidae (Mammalia: Eutheria), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (2), pp. 361-426 : 363

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ASPANLESTES NESOV, 1985 A

Aspanlestes: Nesov, 1985a: 14 .

Ortalestes: Nesov, 1997: 170 .

Type species: Aspanlestes aptap Nesov, 1985a .

Included species: Type species and Aspanlestes sp.

Diagnosis: As for the type species.

Distribution: Uzbekistan; Late Cretaceous (Turonian -?Coniacian).

Comments: A lower molar fragment from the Campanian Darbasa Formation of southern Kazakhstan identified by Averianov (1997: fig. 5) as? Aspanlestes sp. is best classified as Zhelestidae indet.