Biology:Kimbetopsalis

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Kimbetopsalis
Temporal range: - Middle Puercan, 65 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Taeniolabididae
Genus: Kimbetopsalis
Williamson et al., 2016
Species:
K. simmonsae
Binomial name
Kimbetopsalis simmonsae
Williamson et al., 2016[1]

Kimbetopsalis simmonsae was an ancient mammal (a multituberculate) which was first discovered in 2015.[2][3] It lived about 65.5 million years ago, at least a million years after the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.[4]

References

  1. Willamson, T.E.; Brusatte, S.L.; Secord, R.; Shelley, S (2016), "A new taeniolabidoid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Puercan of the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, and a revision of taeniolabidoid systematics and phylogeny", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177: 183–208, doi:10.1111/zoj.12336 
  2. Gill, Victoria (2015-10-05). "Newly discovered mammal species survived dinosaur extinction - BBC News". BBC News (bbc.co.uk). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34414923. 
  3. Fossil find: UNL undergraduate discovers new mammal species, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2015/10/05/Fossil+find%3A+UNL+undergraduate+discovers+new+mammal+species, retrieved October 5, 2015 
  4. Carolyn Gramling, Sarah Shelley (image): How mammals took over the world. ScienceNews; June 7, 2022. – Includes live reconstruction.

Wikidata ☰ Q22285397 entry