Kryptobaatar

Kryptobaatar
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Kryptobataar mandahuensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Djadochtatheriidae
Genus: Kryptobaatar
Species
  • K. dashzevegi
  • K. gobiensis
  • K. mandahuensis
  • K. saichanensis

Kryptobaatar[1] ("hidden hero," from Greek: kryptos, "hidden," and Mongolian: baatar, "hero" or "athlete") and also known as Gobiaatar, Gobibaatar ("Gobi hero")[1] or Tugrigbaatar[2] is an extinct mammalian genus dating from the Upper Cretaceous Period and identified in Central Asia. This animal was a member of the extinct order of Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta, and was a member of the family Djadochtatheriidae. It lived contemporaneously with some of the dinosaurs. Its skull had a length of perhaps 3 cm.

Species identified

Skull

Notes

  1. 1 2 Kielan-Jaworowska Z, 1970
  2. Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Dashzeveg D, 1978. "Gobibaatar has page priority but was selected as the junior synonym by Kielan-Jaworowska in 1980," (McKenna & Bell, 1997)

References

See also

WIBLE, JOHN R.; ROUGIER, GUILLERMO W. (February 2000). "Cranial anatomy of Kryptobaatar dashzevegi (Mammalia, Multituberculata), and its bearing on the evolution of mammalian characters". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 247: 1–120. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)247<0001:CAOKDM>2.0.CO;2. 

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