Kryptobaatar
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Kryptobaatar Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Kryptobataar mandahuensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Multituberculata |
| Family: | Djadochtatheriidae |
| Genus: | Kryptobaatar |
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Kryptobaatar ("hidden hero," from Greek: kryptos, "hidden," and Mongolian: baatar, "hero" or "athlete") and also known as Gobiaatar, Gobibaatar ("Gobi hero") or Tugrigbaatar is an extinct mammalian genus dating from the Upper Cretaceous Period and identified in Central Asia. This animal was a member of the extinct order of Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta, and was a member of the family Djadochtatheriidae. It lived contemporaneously with some of the dinosaurs. Its skull had a length of perhaps 3 cm.
Kryptobaatar was a hopping species, similar to a modern gerboa.
WIBLE, JOHN R.; ROUGIER, GUILLERMO W. (February 2000). "Cranial anatomy of Kryptobaatar dashzevegi (Mammalia, Multituberculata), and its bearing on the evolution of mammalian characters". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 247: 1–120. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)247<0001:CAOKDM>2.0.CO;2.
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