Zofiabaatar pulcher Bakker and Carpenter 1990 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Zofiabaataridae

Full reference: R. T. Bakker and K. Carpenter. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part III. The mammals: a new multituberculate and a new paurodont. Hunteria 2(6):4-8

Belongs to Zofiabaatar according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

See also Bakker and Carpenter 1990 and Carpenter 1998

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCM 42329, a mandible (complete left mandible). Its type locality is Main Breakfast Bench Quarry, which is in a Tithonian deltaic sandstone/mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Main Breakfast Bench Quarry

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