Kimbetohia

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Kimbetohia
Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Paleocene
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Multituberculata
Family: †Ptilodontidae
Genus: †Kimbetohia
Simpson, 1936
Species
  • K. campi Simpson, 1936
  • K. mzaie Middleton and Dewar, 2004

Kimbetohia is a genus of mammal belonging to the extinct order Multituberculata. It lived from the Upper Cretaceous to the Paleocene in the United States.

Taxonomy[]

Two species are known. The type species, Kimbetohia campi, has been found in New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, in the Nacimiento Formation of the San Juan Basin. The deposits date from the Maastrichtian stage of the Upper Cretaceous to the Puercan stage of the Paleocene.[1][2] Some material associated with this species was referred to as Clemensodon megaloba, by D. W. Krause in 1992. The second species, K. mzaie, is known from deposits of the Denver Formation, in Colorado, which has been dated to the Puercan stage of the Lower Paleocene.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ G. G. Simpson. 1936. Additions to the Puerco fauna, Lower Paleocene. American Museum Novitates 849
  2. ^ D. L. Lofgren, B. M. Gaytan, M. Pastrano, J. E. Rice, and R. L. Zheng. 2012. First record of Kimbetohia campi (Mammalia, Multituberculata) from the Paleocene part of the North Horn Formation, Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(5):1214–1217
  3. ^ M. D. Middleton and E. W. Dewar. 2004. New mammals from the early Paleocene Littleton fauna (Denver Formation, Colorado). in Paleogene Mammals, S. G. Lucas, K. E. Zeigler, and P.E. Kondrashov (eds.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin (26)59-80
  • Z. Kielan-Jaworowska Z and J. H. Hurum. (2001) Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, pg. 389–429.
  • Much of this information has been derived from MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Ptilodontoidea, an internet directory.
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