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Djadochtatheriidae

Djadochtatheriidae
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Comparison between the skulls of Kryptobaatar (A), Djadochtatherium (B), and Catopsbaatar (C)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Multituberculata
Superfamily: †Djadochtatherioidea
Family: †Djadochtatheriidae
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Jørn Hurum, 1997[1]
Genera

†Djadochtatherium
†Catopsbaatar
†Guibaatar
†Kryptobaatar
†Mangasbaatar
†Tombaatar

Djadochtatheriidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia. These animals lived during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". This family is part of the suborder of Cimolodonta. The taxon Djadochtatheriidae was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Jørn Hurum in 1997.[2]

Multituberculates are a rather diverse group in terms of locomotion and diet. Forms like Kryptobaatar and Catopsbaatar were hopping, gerboa-like omnivores (and this is probably the ancestral condition for the group, given that Nemegtbaatar also had this lifestyle),[3] while Mangasbaatar was a robust, digging herbivore.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 1997
  2. ^ Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 1997, p. 208
  3. ^ Chen and Wilson, 2015
  4. ^ Rougier et al, 2016

References

  • Chen, Meng; Wilson, Gregory P. (2015). "A multivariate approach to infer locomotor modes in Mesozoic mammals". Paleobiology. 41 (2): 280–312. doi:10.1017/pab.2014.14.
  • Kielan-Jaworowska, Z.; Hurum, J. H. (1997). "Djadochtatheria: a new suborder of multituberculate mammals". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 42 (2): 201–242.
  • Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia; Hurum, J.H. (2001). "Phylogeny and Systematics of Multituberculate Mammals". Palaeontology. 44 (3): 389–429. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00185.
  • Rougier, Guillermo W.; Sheth, Amir S.; Spurlin, Barton K.; Bolortsetseg, Minjin; Novacek, Michael J. (2016). "Craniodental anatomy of a new Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal from Udan Sayr, Mongolia". Palaeontologia Polonica. 67: 197–248. doi:10.4202/pp.2016.67_197.
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