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]
A study involving Mesozoic mammaliaform dietary habits ranks it among insectivorous taxa. [5]