''Qatranilestes'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of
afrosoricid which existed in
Fayum,
Egypt during the earliest
Oligocene
The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the ...
period (
Rupelian age).
It was first named by Erik R. Seiffert in
2010
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and the type species is ''Qatranilestes oligocaenus''.
As of 2010, ''Qatranilestes'' was the youngest known afrosoricid fossil from Egypt.
References
Prehistoric placental genera
Fossil taxa described in 2010
Oligocene mammals of Africa
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