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Cimolomyidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper CretaceousThe Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period (about 135 mya) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary period (65 mya). The end of the Cretaceous also defines the and the PaleoceneThe Paleocene epoch (64-58 mya) ("early dawn of the recent") is the first geologic epoch of the Tertiary period in the modern Cenozoic era. As with most other older geologic periods, the strata that define the epoch's beginning are well identified, but th of North America and perhaps Mongolia.
For the technically minded, this family is part of the suborderIn biology, a suborder is a subdivision of an order. Scientific classification. of CimolodontaCimolodonta Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Therapsida Class: Mammalia Order: Multituberculata Superfamilies Paracimexomys group Djadochtatherioidea Taeniolabidoidea Ptilodontoidea Other families Eucosmodontidae Microcosmodontidae Kogaionidae. Other than that, their systematic relationships are hard to define. Some authors have placed the taxon within TaeniolabidoideaTaeniolabidoidea Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Therapsida Class: Mammalia Order: Multituberculata Superfamily: Taeniolabidoidea Family Taeniolabididae Genera: Catopsalis Lambdopsalis Prionessus Sphenopsalis Taeniolabis Ref. Taeniolabidoidea. Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum (2001) expressly don't.
Taxon: Cimolomyidae Marsh, 1889
Reference: Marsh (1889), Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia. Part II. Am. J. of Sci., 3, 38, p.81-92.
Page reference: Page reference: Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p.389-429.
(This information has been derived from [1] MESOZOIC MAMMALS; 'basal' CimolodontaCimolodonta Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Therapsida Class: Mammalia Order: Multituberculata Superfamilies Paracimexomys group Djadochtatherioidea Taeniolabidoidea Ptilodontoidea Other families Eucosmodontidae Microcosmodontidae Kogaionidae, Cimolomyidae, BoffiidaeBoffius Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Therapsida Class: Mammalia Order: Multituberculata Family: Boffiidae Genus: Boffius Species B. splendidus Ref. Boffius is a mammal genus from the Paleocene of Europe. It was a member of the extinct order and KogaionidaeKogaionidae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Therapsida Class: Mammalia Order: Multituberculata Family: Kogaionidae Genera Kogaionon Barbatodon Hainina Ref. Kogaionidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata., an internet directory. As that's my webpage, there are no issues of copyright. )
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