CIMOLESTA

Depending on whom you ask, 'Cimolesta' is either an almost entirely extinct or entirely extinct biological order of mammals. The only living member of this order is the pangolin, though, many experts who dispute this prefer to place pangolin species within their own order, 'Pholidota'.
It is part of the Clade Ferae, and is possibly a sister taxon to the Perissodactyla. The Cimolesta contains several groups that are very different from each other, and are sometimes regarded as separate orders (which makes the Cimolesta a clade between that of order and superorder): the hooved Pantodonta, the insectivorous Didelphodonta (containing the well-known genus ''Cimolestes'', a possible ancestor of the Carnivores) the carnivorous (?) Tillodonta, the Taeniodonta and the Apatotheria. Several groups are believed to have descended from the Cimolesta: the Pholidota (which could be regarded a suborder of Cimolesta), the Creodonta and the Carnivora. Cimolestans had a wide variety of body shapes, dentition and livestyles. The majority of them bore superficial resemblances to rodents, weasels or oppossums.