Haramiyavia
Appearance
Haramiyavia Temporal range: Rhaetian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
Order: | †Haramiyida |
Superfamily: | †Haramiyoidea |
Family: | †Haramiyaviidae Butler, 2000 |
Genus: | †Haramiyavia Jenkins et al., 1997 |
Species: | †H. clemmenseni
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Binomial name | |
†Haramiyavia clemmenseni Jenkins et al., 1997
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Haramiyavia is a genus of synapsid in the clade Haramiyida that existed about 200 million years ago in the Rhaetian stage of the Triassic.[1] Like other haramiyidans, it was likely a non-mammalian mammaliaform.[2][3] It contains a single species, H. clemmenseni from the Fleming Fjord Formation of Greenland,[1] and has been assigned to the monogeneric family Haramiyaviidae.[4]
Biology
A study involving Mesozoic mammaliaform dietary habits ranks it among insectivorous taxa.[5]
References
- ^ a b Jenkins, F.A.; Gatesy, S.M.; Shubin, N.H.; Amaral, W.W. (1997). "Haramiyids and Triassic mammalian evolution". Nature. 385 (6618): 715–718. Bibcode:1997Natur.385..715J. doi:10.1038/385715a0. PMID 9034187. S2CID 4345396.
- ^ Chang, Kenneth (16 November 2015). "Jawbone in Rock May Clear Up a Mammal Family Mystery". New York Times. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ Luo, Zhe-Xi; Gates, Stephen M.; Jenkins Jr., Farish A.; Amaral, William W.; Shubin, Neil H. (16 November 2015). "Mandibular and dental characteristics of Late Triassic mammaliaform Haramiyavia and their ramifications for basal mammal evolution". PNAS. 112 (51): E7101-9. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112E7101L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1519387112. PMC 4697399. PMID 26630008.
- ^ Butler, P.M. (2000). "Review of the early allotherian mammals". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 45 (4): 317–342.
- ^ David M. Grossnickle, P. David Polly, Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation, Published 2 October 2013.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2110