Liaobaatar
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Liaobaatar Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Multituberculata |
Family: | †Eobaataridae |
Genus: | †Liaobaatar Kusuhasi et al., 2009 |
Species: | †L. changi
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Binomial name | |
†Liaobaatar changi Kusuhasi et al., 2009
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Liaobaatar changi is a multituberculate which existed in China during the lower Cretaceous period.[1] It is the only species in the genus Liaobaatar.
Etymology
The name Liaobaatar indicates the site where the material referred to this genus has been discovered, the Province of Liaoning in China, plus the Mongolian suffix "baatar"= hero often used for multituberculates classification.
References
- ^ Nao Kusuhashi; Yaoming Hu; Yuanqing Wang; Takeshi Setoguchi; Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "Two eobaatarid (Multituberculata; Mammalia) genera from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin Formations, Northeastern China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (4): 1264–1288. doi:10.1671/039.029.0433. S2CID 129371064.
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