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{{Short description|Extinct family of mammals}}
{{Automatic Taxobox
| name              = Albionbaataridae
| fossil_range      = [[Late Jurassic]] - [[Early Cretaceous]]
| taxon             = Albionbaataridae
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision       = 
* ? ''[[Kielanobaatar]]''<ref name="Kusuhashi2010">{{Cite journal|author1=Nao Kusuhashi |author2=Yaoming Hu |author3=Yuanqing Wang |author4=Takeshi Setoguchi |author5=Hiroshige Marsuoka |year=2010|title=New multituberculate mammals from the Lower Cretaceous (Shahai and Fuxin formations), northeastern China|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=5 |pages=1501–1514 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2010.501435 }}</ref>
* ''[[Albionbaatar]]''
* ''[[Proalbionbaatar]]''
}}

'''Albionbaataridae''' is a family of small, [[extinct]] mammals within the order [[Multituberculata]]. [[Fossil]] remains are known from the Upper [[Jurassic]] and Lower [[Cretaceous]] of Europe and Asia. These [[herbivore]]s lived their obscure lives during the [[Mesozoic]], also known as the "age of the [[dinosaur]]s." They were among the more derived representatives of the informal suborder "[[Plagiaulacida]]". The taxon Albionbaataridae was named by Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Ensom P.C. in 1994.

Members of Albionbaataridae were "Shrew-sized taxa that differ from all other multituberculates in having relatively flat, multi-cusped anterior upper premolars, with 10-14 cusps arranged in three rows, rather than 3-4, rarely up to nine high cusps in two rows, and in having lingual slope of all premolars covered by prominent, subparallel ridges...," (Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum, 2001, p.&nbsp;414).

==References==
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* Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom (1994), ''Tiny plagiaulacoid multituberculate mammals from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset England''. Paleontology, 37, p.&nbsp;17-31.
* Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), ''Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals''.  Paleontology 44, p.&nbsp;389-429.
* Much of this information has been derived from [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/basmult.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030426002243/http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/basmult.htm |date=2003-04-26 }} MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Plagiaulacidae, Albionbaataridae, Eobaataridae & Arginbaataridae, an Internet directory.

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[[Category:Multituberculata]]
[[Category:Late Jurassic first appearances]]
[[Category:Early Cretaceous extinctions]]
[[Category:Prehistoric mammal families]]


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