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Isterlestes

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Isterlestes
Temporal range: Late Miocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Genus: †Isterlestes
Species:
†I. aenigmaticus
Binomial name
†Isterlestes aenigmaticus
Cailleux et al., 2025

Isterlestes is an extinct genus of soricid that lived during the Late Miocene.

Distribution

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Isterlestes aenigmaticus is known from Slovakia.[1]

References

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  1. ↑ Cailleux, Florentin; van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W.; Joniak, Peter (September 2024). "The Late Miocene Plesiosoricidae and Soricidae (Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Pannonian region, Slovakia". Journal of Paleontology. 98 (5): 885–909. Bibcode:2024JPal...98..885C. doi:10.1017/jpa.2024.23. ISSN 0022-3360.