Djadochtatheriidae Explained
Djadochtatheriidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia. These animals lived during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". This family is part of the suborder of Cimolodonta. The taxon Djadochtatheriidae was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Jørn Hurum in 1997.[1]
Multituberculates are a rather diverse group in terms of locomotion and diet. Forms like Kryptobaatar and Catopsbaatar were hopping, gerboa-like omnivores (and this is probably the ancestral condition for the group, given that Nemegtbaatar also had this lifestyle),[2] while Mangasbaatar was a robust, digging herbivore.[3]
References
- Wilson . Gregory P. . Chen . Meng. A multivariate approach to infer locomotor modes in Mesozoic mammals. Paleobiology. 41. 2. 280–312. 2015. 10.1017/pab.2014.14.
- Web site: Dykes . Trevor . Mesozoic Mammals; Djadochtatherioidea, an internet directory . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20030421233707/http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/djado.htm. 21 April 2003.
- Kielan-Jaworowska. Z. . Hurum. J. H. . 1997. Djadochtatheria: a new suborder of multituberculate mammals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 42. 2. 201–242.
- Kielan-Jaworowska . Zofia . Hurum. J.H.. Phylogeny and Systematics of Multituberculate Mammals . 2001. Palaeontology . 44 . 3. 389–429. 10.1111/1475-4983.00185.
- Rougier. Guillermo W.. Sheth. Amir S.. Barton K.. Spurlin. Minjin. Bolortsetseg. Michael J.. Novacek . 2016. Craniodental anatomy of a new Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal from Udan Sayr, Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica. 67. 197–248. 10.4202/pp.2016.67_197.
Notes and References
- Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 1997, p. 208
- Chen and Wilson, 2015
- Rougier et al, 2016
