[MM] Asioryctes nemegetensis
Eutherians
DESCRIBER Kielan-Jaworowska, 1975
TIME Cretaceous Late
?Campanian
CLASS Mammalia
INFRACLASS Eutheria
MAGNORDER Epitheria
SUPERORDER Asioryctitheria
FAMILY Asioryctidae
FOSSILSITE Barun Goyot Formation, Red Beds of Khermeen Tsav, Gobi Dessert, Mongolia
INFO
Type species by monotype. Differs from Ukhaatherium in having peglike upper incisors, double rooted upper and lower canines, more axpanded parastylar and more reduced metastylar regions on the upper molars, which are very slender and more elongated transversely, and lack of metaconule on M2. Differs from Bulaklestes in lack of an incipient precingulum.