Kryptobaatar

Taxobox
name = "Kryptobaatar"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
familia = Djadochtatheriidae
genus = "Kryptobaatar"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "K. dashzevegi"
* "K. gobiensis"
* "K. mandahuensis"
* "K. saichanensis"

"Kryptobaatar" [Kielan-Jaworowska Z, 1970 ] ("hidden hero," from Greek: "kryptos", "hidden," and Mongolian: "baatar", "hero" or "athlete") and also known as "Gobiaatar", "Gobibaatar" ("Gobi hero") [ Kielan-Jaworowska Z, 1970] or "Tugrigbaatar" [Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Dashzeveg D, 1978. "Gobibaatar" has page priority but was selected as the junior synonym by Kielan-Jaworowska in 1980," (McKenna & Bell, 1997)] 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.

pecies identified

* "Kryptobaatar dashzevegi" (Kielan-Jaworowska Z, 1970). At Djadokhta Formation, Ukhaa Tolgod and Tögrög Shiree, Mongolia. Age: lower Campanian or Upper Cretaceous. The skull has a length of perhaps 3 cm. The front teeth look impressively sharp and not much like those of a strict vegetarian.
* "Kryptobaatar gobiensis", also known as "Gobibaatar parvus" (Kielan-Jaworowska Z, 1970), from the Upper Cretaceous, from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
* "Kryptobaatar mandahuensis" Smith T, Guo D-Y & Sun Y, 2001. It is from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) strata of the Bayan Mandahu red beds, Inner Mongolia, China. Based on several well-preserved skulls. This location is about the same age as the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.
* "Kryptobaatar saichanensis" (Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Dashzeveg D, 1978), also known as "Tugrigbaatar saichanensis" (Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Dashzeveg D. 1978) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia.

Notes

References

* Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". "Paleontology" 44, p.389-429.
* McKenna MC & Bell SK, (1997), Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press.
* [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/djado.htm MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Djadochtatherioidea] , an Internet directory.
* Kielan-Jaworowska (1970), New Upper Cretaceous multituberculate genera from Bayn Dzak, Gobi Desert. In: Kielan-Jaworowska (ed.), Results of the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions, pt. II. Palaeontologica Polonica 21, p.35-49.