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(Redirected from Nessovbaatar multicostatus) Extinct family of mammals

Nessovbaatar
Temporal range: Santonian-Campanian
~84.9–70.6 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Sloanbaataridae
Genus: Nessovbaatar
Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 1997
Species

N. multicostatus

Nessovbaatar is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. It eked out its living in the company of Central Asian dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Sloanbaataridae.

The genus Nessovbaatar ("Nesov's hero") was named by Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Hurum J.H. in 1997 in honour of Russian paleontologist Dr. Nesov. The only known species is Nessovbaatar multicostatus (Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 1997), fossils of which were found in the Upper Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia.

References

  • Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (1997), "Djadochtatheria: a new suborder of multituberculate mammals". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42(2), p 201-242.
  • Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". Paleontology 44, p. 389-429.
  • Much of this information has been derived from MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Djadochtatherioidea, an Internet directory.
Allotheria
Synapsida
Cynodontia
Mammalia
Allotheria
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Allotheria
Allotheria
Gondwanatheria?
Ferugliotheriidae?
Sudamericidae
Multituberculata
Allodontoidea
Allodontidae
Paulchoffatioidea
Pinheirodontidae
Paulchoffatiidae
Plagiaulacoidea
Plagiaulacidae
Eobaataridae
Albionbaataridae
Cimolodonta
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Sunnyodon notleyi
Cimolodonta
Cimolodonta
Paracimexomys group
Cimolomyidae
Kogaionidae
Eucosmodontidae
Microcosmodontidae
Ptilodontoidea
Cimolodontidae
Neoplagiaulacidae
Ptilodontidae
Taeniolabidoidea
Lambdopsalidae
Taeniolabididae
Djadochtatherioidea
Sloanbaataridae
Djadochtatheriidae
Taeniolabis taoensis
Taxon identifiers
Nessovbaatar
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