Neoplagiaulax

Neoplagiaulax
Temporal range: 66.043–56.8 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Multituberculata
Family: †Neoplagiaulacidae
Genus: †Neoplagiaulax
Species
  • N. annae
  • ?N. burgessi
  • N. copei
  • N. donaldorum
  • N. eocaenus
  • N. grangeri
  • N. hazeni
  • N. hunteri
  • N. jepi
  • N. kremnus
  • N. macintyrei
  • N. macrotomeus
  • N. mckennai
  • N. nelsoni
  • N. nicolai
  • N. sylvani

Neoplagiaulax is a mammal genus from the Paleocene of Europe and North America. In the case of the latter continent, there may possibly be some slightly earlier, Upper Cretaceous material too. It existed in the age immediately following the extinction of the last dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata, lying within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Neoplagiaulacidae.

The genus Neoplagiaulax ("new Plagiaulax") was named by Lemoine V. in 1882.