Information AboutCimolodonta |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT CIMOLODONTA | |
| multituberculates | |
| cretaceous mammals | |
| paleocene mammals | |
| eocene mammals | |
| eocene extinctions | |
The Cimolodonta are a taxon of Extinct Mammals that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene . They were some of the more derived members of the extinct Order Multituberculata . They probably lived something of a Rodent -like existence until their ecological Niche was assumed by true rodents. The more basal multituberculates are found in a different suborder, " Plagiaulacida ". Cimolodonta is apparently a natural (monophyletic) suborder. Remains have been identified from across the Northern Hemisphere . The taxon is recognized as the informal Paracimexomys Group and the superfamilies Djadochtatherioidea , Taeniolabidoidea , and Ptilodontoidea . Additionally, and of uncertain affinities, are the families Cimolomyidae , Boffiidae , Eucosmodontidae , Kogaionidae , Microcosmodontidae and the two genera '' Uzbekbaatar '' and '' Viridomys ''. More precise placement of these types awaits further discoveries and analysis. REFERENCES
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