title: Leptalestes
text: # Leptalestes
  
  Leptalestes is an extinct genus of mammals in the infraclass Metatheria. It was described by B.M. Davis in 2007. A new species, L. toevsi, was described from the late Cretaceous period of the United States by John P. Hunter, Ronald E. Heinrich, and David B. Weishampel in 2010.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Leptalestes cooki (Clemens 1966)
  * Leptalestes prokrejcii (Fox 1979)
  * Leptalestes krejcii (Clemens 1966)
  * Leptalestes toevsi Hunter et al. 2010
  