| Carpolestes Temporal range: late Paleocene[1] |
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| Carpolestes simpsoni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Plesiadapiformes |
| Superfamily: | †Carpolestoidea |
| Family: | †Carpolestidae |
| Genus: | †Carpolestes Simpson, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| †Carpolestes nigridens |
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| Paleospecies[1] | |
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†C. dubius Jepsen, 1930 |
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Carpolestes is a genus of extinct primate-like mammals from the late Paleocene of North America. It first existed around 58 million years ago. The three species of Carpolestes appear to form a lineage, with the earliest occurring species, C. dubius, ancestral to the type species, C. nigridens, which, in turn, was ancestral to the most recently occurring species, C. simpsoni.[1]