Ukhaatherium
Sign in to saveUkhaatherium is an extinct species of mammal that lived during the upper Cretaceous about 84 to 72 million years ago in today's East Asia. It is known above all from the fossil locality Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. An adult Ukhaatherium has an estimated weight of about 32g and bears several similarities to lipotyphlan insectivorans such as the tenrec.
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Ukhaatherium is an extinct species of mammal that lived during the upper Cretaceous about 84 to 72 million years ago in today's East Asia. It is known above all from the fossil locality Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. An adult Ukhaatherium has an estimated weight of about 32g and bears several similarities to lipotyphlan insectivorans such as the tenrec.
== Taxonomy == Ukhaatherium is a genus from the family of the Asioryctitheria, which lived in the late Cretaceous. Ukhaatherium and Asioryctes form the subfamily Asioryctinae, while Kennalestes stands somewhat outside this group.