Kimbetohia facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Kimbetohia Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Paleocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Multituberculata
Family:	†Ptilodontidae
Genus:	†Kimbetohia Simpson, 1936
Species
K. campi Simpson, 1936 K. mzaie Middleton and Dewar, 2004

Kimbetohia is a genus of mammal belonging to the extinct order Multituberculata. It lived from the Upper Cretaceous to the Paleocene in the United States.

Taxonomy

Two species are known. The type species, Kimbetohia campi, has been found in New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, in the Nacimiento Formation of the San Juan Basin. The deposits date from the Maastrichtian stage of the Upper Cretaceous to the Puercan stage of the Paleocene. Some material associated with this species was referred to Clemensodon megaloba, by D. W. Krause in 1992. The second species, K. mzaie, is known from deposits of the Denver Formation, in Colorado, which have been dated to the Puercan stage of the Lower Paleocene.

• Z. Kielan-Jaworowska Z and J. H. Hurum. (2001) Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, pg. 389–429.
• Much of this information has been derived from MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Ptilodontoidea, an internet directory.