| Kimbetopsalis Temporal range: - Middle Puercan, | |
|---|---|
| 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]