Kogaionidae

Kogaionidae
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Eocene 66–55 Ma
Skull of Barbatodon transylvanicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Multituberculata
Suborder: †Cimolodonta
Family: †Kogaionidae
Râdulescu and Samson 1996
Genera

Kogaionidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene of Europe.[2][3] Having started as island endemics on Hateg Island during the Upper Cretaceous, where they were in fact the dominant mammal group and diverged into rather unique ecological niches, they expanded across Europe in the Paleocene, where they briefly became a major component of its mammal fauna before their extinction.[4] They are considered to be basal members of Cimolodonta.[5]

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  3. ^ Codrea, Vlad; Smith, Thierry; Dica, Paul; Folie, Annelise; Garcia, Géraldine; Godefroit, Pascal; Van Itterbeeck, Jimmy (2002). "Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Haţeg Basin (Romania)" (PDF). Comptes Rendus Palevol. 1 (3): 173–180. Bibcode:2002CRPal...1..173C. doi:10.1016/S1631-0683(02)00021-0. ISSN 1631-0683.
  4. ^ First mammal species identified from the Upper Cretaceous of the Rusca Montana Basin (Transylvania, Romania) Article in Comptes Rendus Palevol https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2016.04.002 · June 2016 doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2016.04.002
  5. ^ Smith, Thierry; Codrea, Vlad A.; Devillet, Ghéreint; Solomon, Alexandru A. (2021-09-24). "A New Mammal Skull from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and Phylogenetic Affinities of Kogaionid Multituberculates". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 29: 1–26. doi:10.1007/s10914-021-09564-7. ISSN 1064-7554. S2CID 244194193.