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10 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 281<br />

Fig. 1. The skull <strong>of</strong> the holotype <strong>of</strong> Zalambdalestes lechei AMNH 21708 in (clockwise from upper<br />

left) dorsal, ventral, and right lateral views.<br />

identified Eurymylus (and true lagomorphs)<br />

and Pseudictops (and anagalids) as sister<br />

groups, with Zalambdalestes as an outgroup.<br />

This lineage was said ‘‘to have originated<br />

near a Late Cretaceous leptictid insectivore’’<br />

(Van Valen, 1964: 490). Building on Van<br />

Valen’s (1964) observations, Szalay and Mc-<br />

Kenna (1971: 301) erected a new order, Anagalida,<br />

to include ‘‘the mammalian families<br />

Zalambdalestidae, Pseudictopidae, Anagali-

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