Liaobaatar
| Liaobaatar Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Multituberculata |
| Family: | †Eobaataridae |
| Genus: | †Liaobaatar Kusuhasi et al., 2009 |
| Species: | †L. changi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Liaobaatar changi Kusuhasi et al., 2009 | |
Liaobaatar is an extinct genus of multituberculate mammal known from the lower Cretaceous of what is now China.[1] The genus contains a single species, Liaobaatar changi.
Etymology
[edit]The generic 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", meaning 'hero', often used for multituberculate genus names.
References
[edit]- ↑ 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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