Kimbetopsalis
| Kimbetopsalis Temporal range: - Middle Puercan, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 is an extinct species of multituberculate (an extinct mammal group) from the Paleocene (Puercan 2) of Colorado. It lived about 65.5 million years ago, at least a million years after the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.[2] Kimbetopsalis was first described in 2015.[1][3][4] A 2026 study regarded Kimbetopsalis simmonsae as a species of Taeniolabis.[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Williamson, 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
- ↑ Carolyn Gramling, Sarah Shelley (image): How mammals took over the world. ScienceNews; June 7, 2022. – Includes live reconstruction.
- ↑ Gill, Victoria (2015-10-05). "Newly discovered mammal species survived dinosaur extinction - BBC News". BBC News. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
- ↑ Fossil find: UNL undergraduate discovers new mammal species, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, retrieved October 5, 2015
- ↑ Krause, David W.; Weaver, Lucas N.; Chester, Stephen G. B.; Scott, Craig S.; Weissenburger, Ken; Crowell, Jordan W.; Hummel, Rudolph R.; Lyson, Tyler R. (2026-05-27). "Taeniolabis simmonsae (Multituberculata, Taeniolabididae) from the early Paleocene of the Denver Basin, Colorado: implications for taeniolabidid taxonomy and biochronology of the Puercan North American Land Mammal Age". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 33 (3): 28. doi:10.1007/s10914-026-09817-3. ISSN 1573-7055.
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