Uzbekbaatar

Taxobox
name = "Uzbekbaatar"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
subordo = Cimolodonta
genus = "Uzbekbaatar"
species = "U. kizylkumensis"
binomial = "Uzbekbaatar kizylkumensis"
binomial_authority = Kielan-Jaworowska & Nessov, 1992

"Uzbekbaatar" is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. It was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta, though its further affinities are unclear. The genus was named by Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Nessov L.A. in 1992 and means "Uzbek hero".

The one species named by Kielan-Jaworowska and Nessov is "Uzbekbaatar kizylkumensis", found in the Upper Cretaceous strata of Uzbekistan. A second species was also apparently described by Averianov in 1999.

References

* Kielan-Jaworowska and Nessov (1992), "Multituberculate mammals from the Cretaceous of Uzbekistan", "Acta Palaeontologica Polonica" 37, p.1-17.
* 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/cimolod.htm] : Mesozoic Mammals: "basal" Cimolodonta, Cimolomyidae, Boffiidae and Kogaionidae, an Internet directory.