Bulganbaatar
{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Bulganbaatar
| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
| authority = Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, 1974
| taxon = Bulganbaatar
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- †B.nemegtbaataroides
}}
Bulganbaatar is an extinct genus of early mammals from the Upper Cretaceous.
It is a member of the extinct order Multituberculata. It lies within the suborder Cimolodonta and is a member of the superfamily Djadochtatherioidea. The genus Bulganbaatar was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska in 1974 after the village of Bulgan situated near Bayn Dzak.Kielan-Jaworowska, 1974 p 31
It is one of many Cretaceous aged mammal discoveries made by Kielan-Jaworowska and co-workers from Central Asian sites. Kielan-Jaworowska considered B.nemegtbaatorides to be the ancestor to the genus Nemegtbaatar due to similarity but more derived teeth in the latter, hence the names.Kielan-Jaworowska 1974, p 26, 37 According to Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, both Bulganbaatar and Nemegtbaatar are distinctive for exhibiting "elongation of the last
upper premolar and molars, and an increase in their cusp numbers."Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 2001, p 390
Fossil remains of Bulganbaatar have been found in Upper Cretaceous-aged strata of the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia and Kazakhstan.Averianov 1997Kielan-Jaworowska, 1974 p 31 Their appearances range between 84 and 81 million years ago, from the late Santonian to the early Campanian ages.Wilson et al 2012, Supplemental Table 3Kielan-Jaworowska, 1974 p 31
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References
- {{cite journal |last1=Averianov|first1=A.O. |title=New Late Cretaceous mammals of southern Kazakhstan|date=1997|
journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=42 |issue=2|pages=243–256}}
- {{cite web |last1=Dykes |first1=Trevor |title=Mesozoic Mammals; Djadochtatherioidea, an internet directory |
url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030421233707/http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/djado.htm |archive-date=21 April 2003 |url=http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/djado.htm}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Kielan-Jaworowska | first1=Zofia |title=Multituberculate succession in the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia) |date=1974|journal=Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=30|pages=23–44}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Kielan-Jaworowska | first1=Zofia |last2=Hurum| first2= J.H.|title=Phylogeny and Systematics of Multituberculate Mammals |date=2001|journal=Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=3|pages=389–429|doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00185|url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/14775/files/PAL_E1903.pdf}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Wilson | first1=Gregory P. |last2=Evans | first2=Alistair R.| last3=Corfe| first3=Ian J.|last4=Smits|first4=Peter D.|last5=Fortelius|first5=Mikael|last6=Jernvall|first6=Jukka
| title=Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs
|date=2012|journal= Nature|volume=483|pages=457–460|doi=10.1038/nature10880}}
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