Ptilocercus kylin
| Ptilocercus kylin Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Scandentia |
| Family: | Ptilocercidae |
| Genus: | Ptilocercus |
| Species: | †P. kylin
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ptilocercus kylin Li & Ni, 2016
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Ptilocercus kylin is an extinct species of Ptilocercus that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.
Distribution
Ptilocercus kylin is known from the Lijiawa Mammalian Fossil locality of China.[1]
References
- ^ Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun (14 January 2016). "An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving "living fossils"". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 18627. doi:10.1038/srep18627. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4725336. Retrieved 20 April 2025.