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Sloanbaatar

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Sloanbaataridae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Multituberculata

Genus
  
Sloanbaatar

Sloanbaatar is a mammal genus that lived in Mongolia during the Upper Cretaceous. It lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the also extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta and the family Sloanbaataridae.

The genus Sloanbaatar was named by Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. in 1970. The name means "Sloan's hero", in honour of paleontologist R.E. Sloan.

Fossil remains of the only known species, Sloanbaatar mirabillis, have been found in the Coniacian - Santonian (Upper Cretaceous)-age strata of the Djadokhta Formation in Mongolia.

References

Sloanbaatar Wikipedia