''Kamptobaatar'' is a Mongolian

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

genus from the Upper Cretaceous. It lived at the same time as the later dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the

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Multituberculata within the

suborder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

Cimolodonta and family

Sloanbaataridae Sloanbaataridae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. These small herbivores lived during the "age of the dinosaurs". This family is part of the suborder ...

. The genus ''Kamptobaatar'' ("bent hero") was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska in 1970 based on a single species. "Bent" refers to the observable bend of the zygomatic arches in the skull. Fossil remains of the species ''Kamptobaatar kuczynskii'' are known from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia. The skull had a length of about , while the whole animal was around .

References

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MESOZOIC MAMMALS: Djadochtatherioidea
an Internet directory. Cimolodonts Late Cretaceous mammals of Asia Taxa named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska Prehistoric mammal genera {{cretaceous-mammal-stub