Pantolesta ("all robbers") is an extinct order of placental mammals that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the early Paleocene to middle Oligocene. They are recognized as close relatives of clade Pholidotamorpha (pangolins and palaeanodonts), based on their dental and postcranial similarities, and semi-fossorial adaptations.
Pantolesta ("all robbers") is an extinct order of placental mammals that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the early Paleocene to middle Oligocene. They are recognized as close relatives of clade Pholidotamorpha (pangolins and palaeanodonts), based on their dental and postcranial similarities, and semi-fossorial adaptations.
== Classification and phylogeny == === Taxonomy === {|class="wikitable" |- style="vertical-align:top;" | Order: †Pantolesta Family: †Pantolestidae (paraphyletic family) Family: †Paroxyclaenidae Family: †Pentacodontidae
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).