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Extinct genus of mammals
Hainina is an extinct
mammal
genus from the latest
Cretaceous to the
Paleocene of
Europe .
Genus
The genus Hainina ("from Hainin") was named by Vianey-Liaud M. in 1979. This genus was originally referred to as
Cimolomyidae . "We assign Hainina to the
Kogaionidae (superfamily incertae sedis ); it differs from
Kogaionon in having ornamented enamel, while the enamel is smooth in Kogaionon ".
[1] Material has also been reported from the Upper Cretaceous of
Romania .
Species
Fossils have been described as and found in:
[2]
Species: Hainina belgica Vianey-Liaud M., 1979
Species: Hainina godfriauxi Vianey-Liaud M., 1979
Place: Paleocene of Hainin, Belgium
Species: Hainina pyrenaica Peláez-Campomanes P., Damms R., López-Martinen N. & Àlvarez-Sierra M. A., 2000
Species: Hainina vianeyae Peláez-Campomanes P., Damms R., López-Martinen N. & Àlvarez-Sierra M. A., 2000
Hainina sp. -
Densus-Ciula Formation , Maastrichtian and
Jibou Formation ,
Thanetian , Romania
References
Bibliography
Vianey-Liaud (1979), "Les Mammifères montiens de Hainin (Paléocène moyen de Belgique). Part I. Multituberculés". Paleovertebrata 9 , pp. 117–131.
Further reading
Peláez-Campomanes et al. (2000), "The earliest mammal of the European Paleocene: the multituberculate Hainina ". J of Paleont 74(4) , pp. 701–711.
Kielan-Jaworowska Z. & Hurum J. H. (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". Paleontology 44 , pp. 389–429.
Much of this information has been derived from
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MESOZOIC MAMMALS ; "basal"
Cimolodonta ,
Cimolomyidae ,
Boffiidae and
Kogaionidae , an Internet directory.[
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