Re: Multituberculates

[Guy Leahy <xrciseguy@sbcglobal.net>]

This reference might be of use:

Clemens, W. A., and L. G. Nelms. 1993. Paleoecological
implications of Alaskan terrestrial vertebrate fauna
in latest Cretaceous time at high paleolatitudes.
Geology 21:503-506. 

Guy Leahy

--- Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com> wrote:

> 
> How far north/south have multituberculates been
> found?  Have any been
> found in Alaska's Colville River sites?  The
> southern Australia sites?
> 
> Multituberculates were small, peculiar, dominantly
> Mesozoic mammals. 
> Some lineages passed through the K-T boundary and
> finally went extinct in
> the (?)Oligocene.  I am curious if any pre-K-T taxa
> were cold
> climate-adapted.
> 
> <pb>
> --