Nessovbaatar
Extinct family of mammals
title: "Nessovbaatar" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cimolodonta", "santonian-life", "campanian-life", "late-cretaceous-mammals-of-asia", "fossils-of-mongolia", "fossil-taxa-described-in-1997", "prehistoric-mammal-genera"] description: "Extinct family of mammals" topic_path: "general/cimolodonta" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessovbaatar" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Extinct family of mammals ::
| name = Nessovbaatar | fossil_range = Santonian-Campanian ~ | taxon = Nessovbaatar | authority = Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 1997 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = N. multicostatus
Nessovbaatar is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. It eked out its living in the company of Central Asian dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Sloanbaataridae.
The genus Nessovbaatar ("Nesov's hero") was named by Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Hurum J.H. in 1997 in honour of Russian paleontologist Dr. Nesov. The only known species is Nessovbaatar multicostatus (Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 1997), fossils of which were found in the Upper Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia.
References
- Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (1997), "Djadochtatheria: a new suborder of multituberculate mammals". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42(2), p 201-242.
- Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". Paleontology 44, p. 389-429.
- Much of this information has been derived from https://web.archive.org/web/20030421233707/http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/djado.htm MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Djadochtatherioidea, an Internet directory.
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