Kimbetopsalis simmonsae was an ancient mammal (a multituberculate) which was first discovered in 2015.[2][3] It lived about 65.5 million years ago, at least a million years after the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.[4]
| Kimbetopsalis Temporal range: - Middle Puercan,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Multituberculata |
| Family: | †Taeniolabididae |
| Genus: | †Kimbetopsalis Williamson et al., 2016 |
| Species: | †K. simmonsae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kimbetopsalis simmonsae Williamson et al., 2016[1]
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References
edit- ^ Willamson, T.E.; Brusatte, S.L.; Secord, R.; Shelley, S (2016), "A new taeniolabidoid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Puercan of the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, and a revision of taeniolabidoid systematics and phylogeny", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 177: 183–208, doi:10.1111/zoj.12336
- ^ Gill, Victoria (2015-10-05). "Newly discovered mammal species survived dinosaur extinction - BBC News". BBC News. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
- ^ Fossil find: UNL undergraduate discovers new mammal species, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, retrieved October 5, 2015
- ^ Carolyn Gramling, Sarah Shelley (image): How mammals took over the world. ScienceNews; June 7, 2022. – Includes live reconstruction.
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