Los multituberculados (Multituberculata, latín "con muchos tubérculos o protuberancias") son un orden extinto de mamíferos ancestrales de los cuales se conocen más de 200 especiesfósiles datadas entre el Jurásico medio y el Oligoceno temprano, lo que representa un lapso de más de 100 millones de años. Clásicamente, el término multituberculados se ha considerado sinónimo de aloterios.

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Multituberculata (commonly known as multituberculates, named for the multiple tubercles of their teeth) is an extinct taxon of rodent-like mammals that existed for approximately one hundred and twenty million years —the second longest fossil history of any mammal lineage, after Haramiyida— but eventually declined from the late Palaeocene onwards, disappearing in the early Oligocene, though they might have lived even longer into the Miocene, if gondwanatheres are part of this group. At least 200 species are known, ranging from mouse-sized to beaver-sized. These species occupied a diversity of ecological niches, ranging from burrow-dwelling to squirrel-like arborealism to jerboa-like hoppers. Multituberculates are usually placed outside either of the two main groups of living mammals—Theria, including placentals and marsupials, and Monotremata—but closer to Theria than to monotremes.

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