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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4574948	https://www.gbif.org/species/4574948
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	109934	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=109934

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae : Zaraalestes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Changlelestidae : Zaraalestes

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Eulipotyphla
suborder	Soricomorpha	Gregory 1910
family	Changlelestidae	Tong and Wang 1993
subfamily	Tupaiodontinae	Butler 1988
genus	Zaraalestes	Storch & Dashzeveg 1997

Scientific Name

Zaraalestes Storch & Dashzeveg, 1997

Name Published In

Geobios (Lyon) 30 (3)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Zaraalestes	genus	belongs to Tupaiodontinae	stated with evidence	Storch and Dashzeveg, 1997
Zaraalestes	genus	belongs to Tupaiodontinae	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Mammaliaformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Storch and D. Dashzeveg. 1997. Zaraalestes russelli, a new tupaiodontine erinaceid (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) from the Middle Eocene of Mongolia. Geobios 30(3):437-445

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tupaiodon minutus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zaraalestes minutus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		20	33.9 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Zaraalestes russelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1997	Zaraalestes Storch and Dashzeveg p. 438
2003	Zaraalestes Lopatin
2007	Zaraalestes Ziegler et al.

References

Storch G., Dashzeveg D. (1997) Zaraalestes russelli, a new tupaiodontine erinaceid (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) from the Middle Eocene of Mongolia, Geobios 30 3, 437-445

Lopatin A. V. (2003) A New Genus of the Erinaceidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Mongolia, Paleontological Journal 37 6, 653-664

Ziegler R., Dahlmann T., et al (2007) 4. Marsupialia, Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia), Oligocene-Miocene Vertebrates from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia): Morphology, phylogenetic and stratigraphic implications. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 108A, 53-164

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Geobios (Lyon) 30 (3) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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