Sloanbaatar

Taxobox
name = "Sloanbaatar"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
familia = Sloanbaataridae
genus = "Sloanbaatar"
species = "S. mirabillis"
binomial = "Sloanbaatar mirabillis"
binomial_authority = Kielan-Jaworowska, 1970

"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, J.H. (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals", "Paleontology" 44, p.389-429.
* Much of this information has been derived from [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/djado.htm] Mesozoic Mammals: Djadochtatherioidea, an Internet directory.