Sloanbaatar
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Sloanbaatar is a mammal genus that lived in Mongolia during the Upper Cretaceous. It lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the also extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta and the family Sloanbaataridae.
The genus Sloanbaatar was named by Kielan-Jaworowska Z. in 1970. The name means "Sloan's hero", in honour of paleontologist R.E. Sloan.
Fossil remains of the only known species, Sloanbaatar mirabillis, have been found in the Coniacian - Santonian (Upper Cretaceous)-age strata of the Djadokhta Formation in Mongolia.
References
- Kielan-Jaworowska (1970), "New Upper Cretaceous multituberculate genera from Bayn Dzak, Gobi Desert". Palaentologica Polonica 21, p.35-49.
- 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 [link] MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Djadochtatherioidea, an Internet directory.
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