veshkave
Veshkave is an extinct genus of prehistoric mammals that lived during the Paleocene epoch, approximately 60 million years ago. The first fossil remains of veshkave were discovered in the Panzhihua Formation in Sichuan Province, China. The genus was named by paleontologists Chen and Zhang in 1999.
Veshkave was a relatively small mammal, estimated to be around 10-15 centimeters in length and weighing around
Phylogenetic analysis places veshkave within the family Didelphidae, a group of early marsupial mammals. However, the
The fossil record of veshkave is limited to a single site in southwestern China, where several specimens