Ptilocercus kylin
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Scandentia |
| Family: | Ptilocercidae |
| Genus: | Ptilocercus |
| Species: | †P. kylin
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| †Ptilocercus kylin Li & Ni, 2016
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Ptilocercus kylin is an extinct species of Ptilocercus that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Ptilocercus kylin is known from the Lijiawa Mammalian Fossil locality of China.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun (14 January 2016). "An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving "living fossils"". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 18627. doi:10.1038/srep18627. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4725336. Retrieved 20 April 2025.