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Kimbetopsalis simmonsae was an ancient mammal (a multituberculate) which was first discovered in 2015.[2][3] It lived about 65.5 million years ago, at least a million years after the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.[4]

References

  1. ^ Willamson, T.E.; Brusatte, S.L.; Secord, R.; Shelley, S (2016), "A new taeniolabidoid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Puercan of the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, and a revision of taeniolabidoid systematics and phylogeny", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 177: 183–208, doi:10.1111/zoj.12336
  2. ^ Gill, Victoria (2015-10-05). "Newly discovered mammal species survived dinosaur extinction - BBC News". BBC News. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  3. ^ Fossil find: UNL undergraduate discovers new mammal species, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, retrieved October 5, 2015
  4. ^ Carolyn Gramling, Sarah Shelley (image): How mammals took over the world. ScienceNews; June 7, 2022. – Includes live reconstruction.


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