Corriebaatar
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| Corriebaatar Temporal range: Aptian |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Allotheria |
| Order: | Multituberculata |
| Suborder: | Cimolodonta |
| Family: | Corriebaataridae |
| Genus: | Corriebaatar Rich et al., 2009 |
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Corriebaatar is the type and only genus of Corriebaataridae, a family of multituberculate mammals. It contains the single species Corriebaatar marywaltersae and represents the first evidence of Australian multituberculates[1] Fossils date back to the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous.
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- ^ Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Flannery, T.F., Kear, B.P., Cantrill, D.J., Komarower, P., Kool, L., Pickering, D., Trusler, P., Morton, S., van Klaveren, N., and Fitzgerald, E.M.G. 2009. An Australian multitubercular and its palaeobiogeographic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(1):1-6. [1]
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