Kimbetopsalis Temporal range: - Middle Puercan, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Multituberculata |
Family: | † Taeniolabididae |
Genus: | † Kimbetopsalis Williamson et al., 2016 |
Species: | †K. simmonsae |
Binomial name | |
†Kimbetopsalis simmonsae Williamson et al., 2016 [1] | |
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]