Biology:Kimbetopsalis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Multituberculata |
| Family: | †Taeniolabididae |
| Genus: | †Kimbetopsalis Williamson et al., 2016 |
| Species: | †K. simmonsae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kimbetopsalis simmonsae Williamson et al., 2016[1]
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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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Carolyn Gramling, Sarah Shelley (image): How mammals took over the world. ScienceNews; June 7, 2022. – Includes live reconstruction.
Wikidata ☰ Q22285397 entry
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