The extinction of multituberculates has been a topic of controversy for several decades. After at least 88 million years of dominance over most mammalian assemblies, multituberculates reached the peak of their diversity in the early Palaeocene, before gradually declining across the final stages of the epoch and the Eocene, finally disappearing in the early Oligocene.
The extinction of multituberculates has been a topic of controversy for several decades After at least 88 million years of dominance over most mammalian assemblies multituberculates reached the peak of their diversity in the early Palaeocene before gradually declining across the final stages of the epoch and the Eocene finally disappearing in the early Oligocene