Kielantherium Dashzeveg 1975 (mammal)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha

Full reference: D. Dashzeveg. 1975. New primitive therian from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature 256:402-403

Parent taxon: Tribosphenida according to A. Averianov et al. 2015

See also Cifelli 1993, Dashzeveg 1975, Dashzeveg 1979, Dashzeveg and Kielan-Jaworowska 1984, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 1979, Lopatin and Averianov 2007, Luo et al. 2003, Martin and Rauhut 2005 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Argaliatherium, Brasilestes, Carinalestes, Culicolestes, Idiogenomys, Kermackiidae, Potamotelses, Zygiocuspis, Potamotelsidae, Picopsidae, Theria, Tribotherium, Hypomylos, Paleomolops, Aegialodon

Subtaxa: Kielantherium gobiensis

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Type: Kielantherium gobiensis

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Khovboor (PIN coll. 3101) [SMPE] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

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