Kamptobaatar

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

"Kamptobaatar" is a Mongolian mammal genus from the Upper Cretaceous. It lived at the same time as the later dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Sloanbaataridae.

The genus "Kamptobaatar" ("bent hero") was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska in 1970 based on a single species. "Bent" refers to the observable bend of the zygomatic arches in the skull.

Fossil remains of the species "Kamptobaatar kuczynskii" are known from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia. The skull had a length of about convert|2|cm|in|abbr=on|lk=on, while the whole animal was around convert|10|cm|in|abbr=on|lk=off.

References

*cite journal |last=Kielan-Jaworowska |first=Zofia |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1970 |month= |title=New Upper Cretaceous multituberculate genera from Bayn Dzak, Gobi Desert |journal=Palaentologica Polonica |volume=21 |issue= |pages=35–49 |id= |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Kielan-Jaworowska |first=Zofia |authorlink= |coauthors=Hurum, Jørn H. |year=2001 |month= |title=Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals |journal=Paleontology |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=389–429 |doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00185 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
* Much of this information has been derived from [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/djado.htm MESOZOIC MAMMALS: Djadochtatherioidea] , an Internet directory.