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Sinobaatar is an extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of China. It was within the also extinct order of Multituberculata, and was a small herbivoreIn zoology, an herbivore is an animal that is adapted to eat primarily plants (rather than meat). Thus, while humans may choose not to eat meat, such individuals are vegetarians, not herbivores. A true herbivore, such as a cow, is unable to chew or digest during 'the age of the dinosaurSaurischia Ornithischia The dinosaurs were a diverse and long-lived superorder of prehistoric reptiles. What is a dinosaur? Definition Dinosaurs are a superorder of reptiles that first appeared approximately 230 million years ago. A few lines of primitives'.
(For the technically minded, suborderIn biology, a suborder is a subdivision of an order. Scientific classification. " PlagiaulacidaPlagiaulacida" Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Therapsida Class: Mammalia Order: Multituberculata Families Allodontidae Zofiabaataridae Paulchoffatiidae Hahnodontidae Pinheirodontidae Plagiaulacidae Albionbaataridae Eobaataridae Ref. Order Mul", family Eobaataridae.)

Genus: Sinobaatar Hu Y & Wang Y, 2002

Species: Sinobaatar lingyuanensis Hu Y & Wang Y, 2002
Place: Yixian Formation, LiaoningLiaoning ( Simplified Chinese: , Traditional: , pinyin: Liáoníng) is a northeastern province of the People's Republic of China. Its one- character abbreviation is Liao ( pinyin: liáo). Liaoning is named after the Liao Dynasty that ruled the
Country: China
Age: Lower Cretaceous
Remarks: This sounds like another amazing find from the fossil fields of Liaoning. "The dental features of Sinobaatar show again that eobaatarids are obviously intermediate between Late Jurassic multituberculates and the later forms," (Hu & Wang, 2002). The abstract reports this as a skeleton. Many multis are only known from teeth. The species name is in honour of Lingyuan City.
With thanks to Marcel Opitz for the notification.

Page reference: Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p.389-429.

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