twelvemilensis Mattingly, Sanisidro & Beard, 2017 Carpolestes is a genus of extinct primate-like mammals from the late Paleocene of North America.

[1] Carpolestes had flattened fingernails on its feet but with claws on its fingers.

[2] Morphologically it supports Robert Sussman's theory[3] of the co-evolution of tropical fruiting Angiosperms and early primates where Angiosperms provide nectar and fruits in return for dispersing the seed for tropical rainforest plants.

It appears to have been a distant relative of the Plesiadapiforms such as Plesiadapis.

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