Genus: Minutolestes MARTIN, AVERIANOV, SCHULTZ, SCHELLHORN & SCHWERMANN, 2022
Etymology: Latin, minutus, "tiny, referring to teh small size and Greek, lestes, "robber, theif".

Species: submersus MARTIN, AVERIANOV, SCHULTZ, SCHELLHORN & SCHWERMANN, 2022
Etymology: Latin, submersus, "sunken", referring to the origin of the fossils from a sinkhole.

Holotype: WMNM P82306

Locality: Fissure filling within the Busche Quarry, Balve Locality, within a quarry north of the local center of Balve-Beckum, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia State, Germany

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Barremian-Aptain Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Left upper molar.

Referred material:

WMNH P82304: Left upper molar.

WHMN P82307: Lower molar.