Pantolestidae ("all robbers") is a paraphyletic family of placental mammals from extinct order Pantolesta, that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the early Paleocene to middle Oligocene. They first appear in North America, whence they spread to Europe and Asia.
Pantolestidae ("all robbers") is a paraphyletic family of placental mammals from extinct order Pantolesta, that lived in North America, Asia and Europe from the early Paleocene to middle Oligocene. They first appear in North America, whence they spread to Europe and Asia.
== Description == The pantolestids were a small to moderate in size, omnivorous, semi-fossorial mammals. Members of subfamily Dyspterninae, aswell genus Entomodon, were anatomically similar to family Paroxyclaenidae, while subfamily Pantolestinae and genera Aatotomus and Paleotomus were similar to family Pentacodontidae. Oldest known pantolestids were north american genera Bessoecetor, Leptonysson and Paleotomus, while youngest known pantolestid was european genus Kochictis.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).