zhelestid
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zhelestid (plural zhelestids)
- (paleontology) An extinct eutherian mammal of the family Zhelestidae.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 31:
- The dinosaurs arriving from Asia proved the hardiest immigrants, though zhelestids (primitive insect-eating mammals that resembled elephant shrews) also somehow made it.