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a family of small, primitive eutherian mammals; now considered stem-eutherians and probably not placental; the shrew-like, mostly insectivorous Zalambdalestes was about a foot long; Mongolia, Late Cretaceous, possibly to Paleocene.
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Carlton, R.L. (2018). Z. In: A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73055-4_26
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