ammonites
Barunlestes butleri Kielan-Jaworowska 1975 (placental mammal)

Mammalia - Theriiformes - Zalambdalestidae

Full reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 1975. Preliminary description of two new eutherian genera from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 33:5-15

Belongs to Barunlestes according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZPal MgM-I/77, a partial skeleton (damaged skull with both dentaries and a large part of the postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is Khulsan (PMPE), which is in a Campanian terrestrial sandstone/sandstone in the Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore